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LITERARY— To the Retired Staff (Poem).....

Former Superstitions Regarding Comets and Meteors--- -------Richard the Lion Hearted…..

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THE BLACK AND RED Volume XXXII.

Watertown, Wis” April, 1928

Number 1

Entered at the PostofRce at Wjotertown. Wis , as second class matter under Act of March 3. 1879. Published monthl : y. Subscription, One Dollar.

TO THE RETIRED STAFF For many years they’ve bravely stood the test, Those men who gave the time which they have spared To writing and to work. Their breasts they’ve bared To critic’s scorn. They strove to give the best That they could offer; and they have expressed An inward pleasure—Great the path they fared As all their efforts indicate. They dared But now lay down their pens; so let them rest.

Live on, all ye who have thus bravely served Your paper, and have served it well indeed.

Let fragments of those happy hours renew Your interest, which might, perhaps, have swerved.

May we, who in your places shall succeed, Do justice to the 'Black and RecT and you.

T. :FORMER SUPERSTITIONS REGARDING COMETS AND METEORS “Like a comet burned That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In the Arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war.

Thus, probably recalling from his youth the comet of 1618 as the dread harbinger of the Thirty Year’s War with all its de-

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vastation and horror, Milton, comparing Satan to a comet, voiced the almost universal superstition and fear accompanying the appearance of these celestial visitants, those “fireballs flung by an angry God.” Calpurnia, when warning Caesar not to venture forth on that fatal day, the Ides of March, exclaims: “When beggars die, then are no comets seen; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.”

These two quotations, selected from masterpieces of literature, show us with what apprehension the approach of these beautiful heavenly phenomena was looked forward to. National disasters were sure to follow; plagues and pestilence trailed in their wakes ； monarchs died on their appearances; the day of judgment, “Dies Irae,” was nigh at hand. According to Pliny, the shape the comet assumed indicated its character as a portent. To the vivid imag­ ination of the frightened masses, comets took the form of dragons, fTames, lances, arrows, or swords. Virgil compares them to a war­ rior in his shining armor. With regard to the comet of B. C. 48, Pliny in his “Natural History” relates the significance attached to the comets by the Romans; he observes, “We have in the war be­ tween Caesar and Pompey an example of the terrible effects which follow the apparition of a comet, that fearful star which overthrows the powers of the earth.” In his history of the Jews Jos­ ephus speaks of several signs appearing? in the sky, foretelling the fall of Jerusalem. The historian writes as follows: “Among the warnings, a comet, one of the kind Xiphias, because their tails appear to represent the blade of a sword, was seen above the sky for the space of a whole year.” The downfall of Nero was heraided by a comet.

In that age Chaldean stargazers were apparently the sole ancient nation to regard comets as mere harmless wanderers in space. The Phythagoreans alone of the old philosophers had some general idea that they might be bodies obeying fixed laws, returning perhaps at definite intervals. Seneca held this view. ' The emperor Vespasian, he who thought it fit that an emperor should die standing, manifested an indifference and unconcern, remarkable in that age, regarding .these signs of heaven. When attacked by some malady and nearing death, perceiving some of courtiers conversing together in a low tone of voice about the comet, that of A. D. 79, and gazing rather significantly in his di­ rection, unconcerned the old emperor remarked, “this hairy star does not concern me; it menaces rather the king of the Parthians, for he is hairy and I am bald.” His attempt to laugh down the popular Belief, however, did not stir the Romans in their fond con­ viction. The death of Attila, they believed, was preceded by the 2

comets of A. D. 451 and 453; that of A. D. 455 announced the end of Valentinian III. This conviction of a supposed connection between these signs in the heavens and the decease of monarchs was so widespread that later chroniclers appeared to have recorded comets which were never seen, as for instance, the comet of A. D. 814, harbinger of the death of Charlemagne.

The middle or dark ages did not advance beyond this stage in the knowledge of these phenomena. Texts of scripture were twisted into a proof of their supernatural character. And most absurd of all, some old preachers proclaimed that the comets were composed of the sins of mortals, which, ascending to the sky, and thus coming to the notice of God, were set on fire by his wrath.

About the year A. D. 1000, when the end of the world was ex­ pected, the most simple phenomena assumed terrible proportions.

A comet, appearing then, to their eyes took the shape of a mon­ strous dragon. But the year passed and the earth still rolled on in its usual course, and the ipeople after this scare, no doubt, rejoiceel that this good old world yet continued to exist.

Tlic appearance of Halley's famous comet at important dates and periods of history seems to support the portent theory. Strik­ ing events have occured on the occasion of its various returns. At its appearance in A. D. 66, it was probably the sword of fire describecl l)y Josephus in his history of the Jews as suspended over Jerusalem not long before its destruction by Titus. At another time it coincided with the defeat of Attila by Aetius on the CataIaunian fields A, D. 451. Its periodic return in 1066, the year of the Norman conquest, when it was known as William the Conquer­ or's comet, struck terror to the hearts of the Saxons, who supposed it as presaging the success of the invasion and the death of Harold. **Nova Stella novus rex was on every tongue. Queen Matilde, when she wove the famous Bayeux tapestry depicting the conquest, failed not to include the star and showed with what alarm it was regarded by the dejected Harold and how people pointed to it as her­ alding the success of the invasion. Evidently in this case the comet appeared propitious to the one party, adverse to the other; announced success on the one hand, failure on the other. In 1456 this portentous sign appeared again at a critical period in history.

In 1453 Mohamed II with his Moslem hordes had at last gained a permanent foothold on European soil through the capture of Constantinople. Flushed with victory and desirous of conquest they pushed on and in 1456 beseiged Belgrade, defended by John Hunniades, the Pope’s general. Appearing in June, during this time of great anxiety simultaneously with the Moslems, the comet was looked on with great fear and distress by the Christians, almost paralyzing their forces. It was considered a sign of the anger of the Almighty: surely the day of judgment was at hand. The 3

Turk observed it with no less apprehension. It happened that the moon at the time was passing through its crescent phase, and I-Ialley’s comet presented the appearance of a sword. The crescent moon, resembling the Turkish emblem, together with this visitor was considered to be an evil omen by the Mohammedans, contribut­ ing eventually to their downfall. The universal panic occasioned by the simultaneous appearance of the invading horde and this brilliant comet is said to have caused Pope Calixtus III to issue a bull against the celestial visitant, and ordered that the faithful should all address the following supplication to their Ave Maria “Lord save us from the devil, the Turk, and the terrifying comet.”

With the beginning： of modern times light was thrown on the subject of comets. Copernicus, naturally, refused to look upon comets as supernatural warnings, although the men of his age still accepted their evil ominousness as a matter of course. About the middle of the seventeenth century came the dawn of changing ideas. Even then the little there was known of comets was for a long time kept as far as possible from students of the universities lest their religious beliefs should suffer as a result. Tycho Brahe’s and Kepler’s assertion, however, that comets were supralunar, or beyond the moon, and were probably not so intimately concerned with “war, pestilence, and famine” gained credence. Newton dem­ onstrated that comets were as obedient to the natural laws as the planets. After Sir John Herschel had explained that these eelestial bodies that approach us so stealthily, wending their way among the stars, passing through interplanetary space, finally blazing out with a marvelous train of light as they draw near to the sun to pay homage to the king, then again withdrawing into the obscurity whence they came, were composed of such airy texture that they might be packed in a grip, tail and all, this hitherto almost uni­ versal fear, accompanying the advent of a comet, disappeared among the informed. Yet even in the generations following these men, even up to very modern times, great panics ensued whenever these beautiful objects were seen in the heavens. The comet of 1811, among the superstitious, was the dread harbinger of the war of 1812. Its appearance also attracted the attention of Napoleon, who was at the point of undertaking his fatal Russian campaign.

Numerous omens were drawn from it. Some people, no doubt, saw in this comet the herald that announced the fall of the great French emperor. Donati’s comet of 1858, which has a period of about 2000 years and which was probably the most beautiful comet ever seen, was the accredited precursor of our Civil War. It is surprising that as late as 1910, during the most recent return of Halley’s comet, several persons on this occasion committed suicide; others became insane. Several events, it ig true, that occurred in 1910, when Halley’s and the great Daylight comet paid their hom4

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age to the sun, might have made men wonder if there were not some truth in the portent theory. In January, when the Daylight comet unexpectedly blazed forth, the people of Paris saw its re­ flection in the flood which then threatened to inundate and destroy their city. In May of the same year, when all were waiting for the predicted return of Halley’s, the body of Edward VII lay in state at Westminster.

The connection between comets and meteors is today known to be very close. The noted meteor streams are considered to be the debris of comets. Since they are today known to be so intimately related we shall write of several of the superstitions concerning them.

Meteors, though objects of wonder and awe, never excited the terror inspired by the slow and stealthy approach of comets. Yet from time immemorial legend and superstition have interwoven themselves around these brilliant objects that silently and swiftly sweep across the vault of heaven in a blaze of glory and then van­ ish m y^tcriously as though extinguished by some invisible hand.

Shooting stars to the Oriental believer were fiery darts hurled by the angels at the evil spirits or genii, when the latter were caught cavesdroppingf at the gates of heaven. This legend, found in the Koran, is referred to in Moore’s “Paradise and the Peri.” The Lithuanians have a beautiful myth, as told in Grimm’s “Deutsche Mythologie，” explaining the nature of thes fiery darts. The spinstress Werpega spins the thread of a child’s life at its birth. Each thread ends in a star. When death nears, the thread breaks, and the star, falling to earth, quenches its fire. The Galician peasants believe that when a meteor falls to earth it is at once transformed into an exceedingly beautiful maiden with long glittering golden hair. She is said to exert a magical influence on all who approach her. The effect, however, is evil unless certain words are uttered as the star falls to earth. In the days of Capernicus meteors were regarded as a kind of exhalation from the earth which was con­ sumed during some process of change in the upper regions of the atmosphere. Milton compares the swift flight of Satan to a shoot­ ing star and incidentally expresses the conception of his age regarding shooting stars: “S'vift as a shooting star In autumn thwarts the night, when vapors fired Impress the air.”

Later they were volcanic missiles violently ejected from the moon, and soon they ascended to the rank of stone falling from the sky.

Today comets and meteors are known to be harmless bodies uing their courses through the profound spaces, and every one is hailed with delight and closely observed. For some mortals, however, the mathematical exactness with which astronomers 5

calculate the path of the comet and its nearness of approach to our planet gives rise to another type of fear. Occasionally it has been reported that the tail of a comet would strike the earth or that it would cross the earth’s orbit. Numerous comet-scares, the first in 1835, occasioned by the report of a French astronomer, Argo, that the comet of that year would pass directly over the earth’s orbit, have thus originated. Astronomers now assure us that were the earth struck by the tail of a comet a shower of dust would probably be the greatest calamity.

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RICHARD THE LION HEARTED Chivalry being what it then was, and lions being what they still are, it is not too much to say that Richard the Lion Hearted was a chivalrous prince whose by-name fitted him to aliair.

Richard I ascended the English throne in 1189. He was thir­ ty-two years old and had been recognized as Duke of Aquetaine for eighteen years. He was the third son of Hery II and the eldest to survive him. We may call him a “knight errant succeeding a statesman.”

He had many faults: he was lavish in expense, unscrupulous in extortion, violent in passion, and had little interest or capacity in problems of statesmanship, but he was a splendid savage” with all the virtues and vices of the medieval hero. This sufficintly explains the action of a prince like Richard, so much guided by pas­ sion and so little by policy, during the ten years of his reign.

Richard had hardly been made king- when a persecution of the Jews took place in England. In fact, RicharcVs coronation was a direct cause of this persecution. The king had forbidden any Jew from taking part in the coronation ceremonies, but some thought themselves especially privileged and tried to win favor by bringing great gifts. They failed to gain favor, and their fellow Jews were made to suffer with them. Richard did not spend much time with these Jews, however, but he was impelled more by the love of military glory and acted from the beginning of his reign as if the sole purpose of his government had been the relief of the Holy Land and the recovery of Jerusalem from the Saracens. Con­ sequently he immediately made preparations for a crusade to the Holy Land. The situation of England at this time, when the people possessed little riches and the public no credit, made it impossible to support a distant expedition like that into Palestine, and Rich­ ard knew that •he must carry with him all the treasure necessary . for his enterprise. He then put to sale the revenues and manors of the crown, the offices of greatest trust and power, even those

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of forester and sheriff, which anciently were very important. Rich­ ard was so elated with the hopes of fame that, when some of his ministers objected to this sale of the power of the crown, he replied that he would sell London itself could he find a purchaser.

Before Richard left England and started his march to the Holy Land, he appointed two prelates as guardians of the realm. He did not go on this, the Third Crusade, alone, but he combined forces with Philip Augustus of France, with whom he patched up his quarrels and established a temporary friendship to further his crusade into the East. The arrival of Philip and Richard in Pal­ life into the Christians, and these two princes, estine inspired acting together and sharing the honors and dangers of every action, gave hope of a final victory over the infidels, but Richard, possessing a more precipitate courage than Philip and being more agreeable to the romantic spirit of the age, drew to himself the general attention, and acquired a great and splendid reputation.

Philip then became disgusted with the ascendancy assumed and acquired by Richard, and having views of many advantages which lie nr'ght reap by his presence in Europe, declared his resolution of returning to France. When Philip reached France, he and John, a jealous brother of Richard, did all they could to ruin Richard.

Richard, on the other hand, now alone in Palestine, had no hopes of further conquest and therefore concluded a truce with Saladin, the infidel leader, and stipulated that Acre，Joppa, and other sea­ port towns of Palestine should remain in the hands of the Christ­ ians, and that every one of that religion should have lib erty to perform his pilgrimage to Jerusalem unmolested. It may be interesting to know that this truce was concluded for three years, three months, three days, and three hours. There remained after the truce no business of importance to detain Richard in Palestine, and the intelligence which he received concerning the conduct of Philip and his brother John made him sensible that his presence was necessary in Europe. He then started for Europe but was shipwrecked near Aquileia. He then put on the disguise of a pil­ grim with the purpose of journeying secretly through Germany.

Before his journey took him very far, he was found out and taken prisoner by Leopold, duke of Austria, who had served under him and who had been insulted by him at the siege of Acre. Henry VI, the emperor of Germany, also an enemy of Richard, had the royal captive delivered to him, and thus the king of England, who had filled the world with his renown, found himself, during the most critical state of his affairs, confined in a dungeon and loaded with irons, in the heart of Germany, entirely at the mercy of his enemies. Philip and John were overjoyed at the capture, but this joy was suddenly changed to fear when the emperor of Gerrmany delivered Richard to his own people for a ransom of about 3"00,000 7

丨， pounds. As soon as Philip heard of the king’s deliverance from captivity, he wrote to his confederate, John, “Take care of your­ self; the devil is broken loose.” The warning certainly was neeessary, and Philip especially took it to heart, because he well knew that the loosed “devil” of a Richard, who sometimes disappointed his friends, but who never disappointed his enemies, presently would be settling with him that long-standing account. When Richard reached England he was crowned anew at Winchester by his people. He stayed in England only long enough to settle the things that John had corrupted for him, and then passed over the continent with an army to revenge himself for the many injuries wrought by the hands of Philip. During the * ' Prince John deserted Philip, threw himself at his brother’s feet, craved pardon for his offences, and by the intercession of Queen Eleanor was received into favor. “I forgive liim，’’ said Richard, “and hope I shall as easily forget his injuries as he will my pardon.”

In 1199, while Richard was making an attack on a garrison near Limoges, the arrow of an archer wounded him. The wound in itself was not dangerous, but the unskilfulness of the surgeon attending him made it mortal. As the king became sensible that his life was drawing toward a period, he sent for the archer and asked him, “Wretch, what have I done to you to oblige you to seek my life?” “What have you done to me?” cooly replied the prison­ er; “You killed with your own hands my father and my two broth­ ers, and you intended to have hanged myself. I am in your power now, but I shall endure all torments with pleasure, provided I can think that I have been so happy as to rid the world of such a nuis: ance.” Richard, humbled by the near approach of death, ordered that the archer be set at liberty and that a sum of money be given him, but an unknown man seized the assassin, flayed him alive, and then hanged him. Richard died shortly after, in the tenth year of his reign and the forty-second of his life.

Richard was a very romantic figure, and it is he of whom Scot writes in his Ivanhoe and in his Talisman, but the most shining part of this prince’s character are his military talents. No man, even in that romantic age, carried personal courage to a greater height, and this quality gained for him the appellation the LionHearted. He passionately loved glory, chiefly military glory, and as his conduct in the field was not inferior to his valor, he seems to have possessed every talent necessary for acquiring it.

In short, Richard was open, frank, generous, sincere, and brave; he was revengeful, domineering, ambitious, haughty, and cruel.

As military talents make a great impression on the people, he seems to have been much beloved by his subjects, and he is said to have been the first prince of the Norman line that bore any sincere re8

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gard to them. He passed, however, only four months of his reign in England, the crusades employed him nearly three years, he was detained fourteen months in captivity, and the rest of his reign was spent either in war or preparation for war against France. _ His political alliances were formed on the merest grounds of likes and dislikes; he was eloquent after a rude and effective fashion, consciously unfit to govern men, and utter wanting' in the political common sense necessary for a good ruler.

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ENTER VOLUME XXXII The Black and Red has passed another milestone of its exis­ tence. As it enters upon its thirty-second year, we pause to look back ere we proceed to the future. We thank the retired staff for its successful efforts to maintain and improve the reputation of our paper. We thank our readers for their active interest, and we extend our heartiest thanks to our advertisers and subscribers for their financial support.

The duties of maintaining the reputation gained by our pre­ decessors have devolved upon a new and to a great extend inexperi­ enced staff. As we look forward, we ask ourselves the question, “Are we able to shoulder the responsibility that has been entrust­ ed to us?” It is with due apprehension and full knowledge of our obligations and responsibilities that we are entering upon our new duties. We are fully aware that many of our efforts will meet with expressed disapproval, but we must not think that we are incompe­ tent because we are inexperienced. We know that this strange conciousness and feeling of incapability is very natural in beginners, and we may be assured that with proper co-operation from our stu­ dents and alumni and our own faithful application and untiring 10

perseverance we shall be able to overcome any obstacles which now hinder us. The new staff will earnestly strive to redeem the trust placed upon it and to uphold the high standard which other hands so ably established. It will endeavor to give its readers a true representation of our school, and it will aim to reflect the spirit that really predominates at our college.

As in former years we shall be obliged to rely upon the under­ graduates and alumni for most of the literary material. During the past year the students have loyally supported their paper, and tlic Black and Red has become a truly representative organ of the student body. We are confident that our students will continue to willingly contribute to the new volume.

The co-operation from our alumni, however, can still be improved upon. We earnestly solicit the criticism and advice of our alumni, who, because of their greater experience and knowledge, can judge our work much better than we ourselves can. We ask everyone who still takes interest and pride in his school to con­ tribute freely to its pulication. It is particularly difficult for the editor of the Alumni Notes to get news, especially news that will interest his readers. How can the editor, who seldom gets out of Watertown write about what our alumni in Leavenworth, Washing­ ton, are doing- or what has happened to others in' McIntosh, South Dakota, if the alumni do not do their part to help him? Our ed­ itor will greatly appreciate any news items that our alumni may chance to jot down and send to him. It’s your paper, alumni, and you should do your bit to help it toward perfection.

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SLANG Did you ever consider that through your slang you date your­ self? Aside from the pedagogical view-point, aside from the pos­ sible vulgarity of slang, aside from the palpable senselessness of most of the slang, aside from all this, the use of slang should still be carefully avoided. The reason ? Merely this: by the time the current snappy expressions and phrases reach you, they are alre«idy hopelessly worn out, and who wants to be marked as oldfashioned and behind the times in these fast and progressive days?

Certainly not you, intelligent reader. Consider how pitiful, how tragic, yet how mirth provoking it is to hear an otherwise very modern young gentleman refer to anything in that current phrase of 1922 as “the cat’s pajamas.” Wouldn’t you wonder where he had been hibernating, that he should emerge with such a practically antediluvian expression ? The effect of modern clothes, modern swagger, and modern wealth would thus be completely undone.

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You would, of course, carefully avoid associating with such an okl-fashioned—yes, bizarre creature. Consider then, you give ut­ terance to an expression which you fondly imagine is the very newest, but as it happens, another overhears it and recognizes it as an expression which was current when he was in knee-pants.

What will lie thinlv of you? You owe it to yourself to appear at appear at your best if you your best always, and how can vou — ., appear—horror of horrors!—old fashioned?

Therefore, you have only two excuses to use slang; namely, (1) if you are original enough to invent your own (and then chances are that no one will know what you're talking about), or (2) if you are actually in the position to obtain the very latest slang with the assurance that it has never before flourished (in which case chances are that you won't know what you’re talking about yourself).

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ON BOOKS AND LEARNING Popular notion has it that a college or a university is not a place primarily to learn something that can be kept and used, from time to time, but a means for scientifically tabulating the sources for future reference, a learning of the “where” to look for and per­ haps find what one is looking for. Is the object of higher educa­ tion then to get knowledge alone, or to get an index for future reference only, or should both be got in equal quantity ? It seems that both should bear equal stress. There is, however, a tendency to swing toward either side; one school will stress too much the cramming of dry fact, another too little. Several hundred years before Christ Xenophon had a somewhat similar idea in mind when he .placed on the tongue-tip of Socrates the words to Euthydemos on books and education: “Does the possession of an extensive li­ brary make one a sage, a philosopher, a thinker, a teacher?” The young Greek addressed in that fashion by the philosopher indeed thought that his splendid collection of parchment scrolls with their mines of wisdom in ink entitled him to the honors of a scholar. Surely, he had that knowledge, and yet he didn’t have it; the idea seems meaningless. Yet, his learnings remained “between the covers” so to speak of his books and rested on his ability to approach his shelves and lay his hand on the correct volume; none of it could be called his own.

An education, in our opinion is therefore more than the manu­ facture of a mental index, more than the acqusition of a complete set of Shakespeare, Goethe, Shiller, the “Rubaiyat” or Johnson’s “Rasselas” in black or red morocco etc; but it is also the possession of a fair amount of learning that we can call “ours” and use when we will.

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一Rev. Philip Martin, '96, of Brownsville, Wis. dedicated his new church organ on April 8. A fine organ concert was given by Prof.

Vunj^kunz of the Milwaukee Conservatory of music. The church choir under teacher Wilbrccht sang for the services and Rev. Karl Otto, cx. ’08, gave several excellent solos. Rev. Pifer of Edorado held the address. The dedication helped to make Rev. Martin’s first Easter in Wisconsin pleasant.

—Prof. Gustav Westerhaus, ’08, who had been ill with pneumon-ia for several weeks before the holidays, spent a week in a sani­ tarium at Minneapolis during vacation, where he had a painful ingrown hair on his cheek treated.

—Rev. Gerhart Marquardt, ’23，was installed as pastor of the St, Paul's Congregation at Hurley, Wis., and Ironwood, Mich. on March 25. 一Prof. Walter Schumann, ’12，delivered a sermon at the Public Service Buliding in Milwaukee Good Friday.

—Born to Rev. and Mrs. Walter Gutske, ’17, a daughter on March 29. Dr. J. H. Ott, ’85, was thus made a happy grandfather.

Proud fathers of little daughters were lately also Rev. Waldemar Sauer, ’21, of Mazeppa, Minnesota, and Gustav Kuske, ex. ，22, Owatonna, Minn. Congratulations!

—During the Easter vacation Walter Kleinke, }24, announced his engagement to Miss Lorain Bartell of Milwaukee.

•—Prof, and Mrs. Theordore Binhammer spent their vacation with the former’s parents in Michigan.

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一Prof. Ernst Wendland, *06, preached at Saginaw on Palm Sun­ day.

—Prof. Karl Bretzmann, *26, of Milwaukee was seen in Watertown during our Easter recess. The girls’ basketball team has set up a fine record for Lutheran High under his coaching this year, winning nine out of their ten games.

—Arnie Brandt, ex. ’22，took out his marriage license in Mil­ waukee during Easter week.

—Prof. Elmer Kiessling, *17, made his regular trip to Chicago during vacation. Prof. Kiessling took the opportunity to see Gold­ smith^ "She Stoops to Conquer,” playing at the Blackstonc thea­ tre, since he is coaching the cast chosen from our Literary Societies to stage the same play.

—Hilbert Dahms, ex. ’30，and Gerhard Uetzmann, ex. ’29, paid Northwestern a visit while its scholastic halls were to the greater part vacated. Some time before Easter Clarence Bloeclorn, ex. ’30, was also here to renew old acquaintances. ―The class of ’27 has finally gotten its graduation picture into the reception room.

—Pastor Henry Lehmann, ’23, der von Dakotas Fluren seine Bitte nach einer Zimgenorgel aussendel, hat wiederum einmal seine alten Klassengenossen mit dem Wechsel seiner Initialen verbluefft. ―Just now while we are seeing his former classmates slowly winding up the first section of their monastic life we are apprised of Gilbert Neider’s marriage to Elda Roessler. The ceremony pre­ ceded the holidays. We extend our best wishes.

—Campaign cards had previously informed us that Gerhard Buenger, ex. ’28, had turned to politics. Our information was con­ firmed by the election returns of Tuesday April 3, which showed him elected Justice of the Peace at Kenosha.

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It is but rare that we have the occasion to hear the Chinese enigma unravelled by a “real live Chinaman,” as Mr. No Yong Park, editor of the Korean Independent and so-called Mark Twain of China, said he was called in one of our college towns among the cornfields. Mr. Park has the latter appellation because of his ability_ as a lecturer, humorist, and journalist. He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and author of a new book “China’s Revolt against Imperialism.”

According to the lecturer the winter snows have covered the smouldering embers of the guerilla warfare, but the Spring suns will again set them in flames. In China there are nine revolutions agog. The most important of these are the industrial revolution as England saw it during the eighteenth century; an intellectual revolution or a Renaissance; a political revolution, accompanied by civil war and caused by foreign aggression, lack of transpor­ tation and diversity of language; a social and international revolu­ tion.

In China," according to Mr. Park, one may see children of the school age crying for school; but poverty, the very lack of schools and teachers deny them that. Yet that shows the thirst for know­ ledge which has been awakened there since the Boxer Wars.

Underlying the political revolutions are causes too numerous to mention. Suffice it to say that American and European capital­ ists are one cause, the ambitions of both the northern and southern militarists for sovereignty another, the lack of transportation facilities a third, the ignorance and superstition of the masses a fourth, and the nineteen quite variant dialects a last.

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Atjit ' dom of woman from head to foot, for now the binding of her feet is spoken of in the preterite and the city of Canton even permits the presence of women at the polls; child-marriage has become history.

Sixteen foreign cooks have their ladles in the yellow broth, spicing and stirring it to their tastes. China must fight extraterri­ toriality. Mr. Park deplored the sad truths that foreign interests control her tariffs and refuse to obey Chinese law. In Shanghai a nintey-five percent yellow citizenship is being ruled by a five per­ cent white population.

The lecturer also said that Bolshevism and Communism could hardly take sound root in China, because of the very innate love of the natives for their patrimony and the lack of a capitalistic class. The lack of authentic news from China, as he stated, is due to the fact that the only one cable binds Asia with America and that is beset by white press agents. * * * LITERARY SOCIETIES

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Smith, Holmes Trombone Duet, N. Paustian, C. Trapp 7. Some aspects on Co-education....

-----Original M. Franzmann 8. Die letzten zwei Dollars______ One-act play H. Oswald-W. Schweppe Critic: Prof. A. Sitz The Phi Gamma Rho program presented on the 24th of March : 1. The Rambler Frank Fuhrer Brass Quartet: Baritones: Amacher, Oswald; Cornets: Schweppe, Bleichwehl.

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Miss Dierker 4. Sonata Appassionata ---- -----Beethoven Piano Solo— —Heinz Bluhm —Original — 5. O. Henry .

Lee Sabrowsky Longfellow 6. Evangeline on the Prairie Miss Lehmann 7. Tonawanda, Dance of the Indian Camp, A. Wendland March ''Student Epirit H. W. Wendland and H. C. Miller College Band Critic: Prof. H. Sclimeling Master of Ceremonies: S. E. Westendorf Untoward and unavoidable circumstances prevented the ap­ pearance of the brass quartette of the first number.

Commencement The dale scheduled for Commencement this year in the catloguc is the fifteenth of June. However, for those whom it may concern and who do not already know, we announce that for rea­ sons implying the interest of all concerned the date has been chang­ ed to the thirteenth, Wednesday. Although these two days do not mean much, they will perhaps be of use to some who must work during the summer to return in Fall, and we might include most of us in that relative clause. Easter vacation is too early to apply for work, many cannot return home before June, and when they do then, it is only to find that high-schools have closed three days previous and most of the work has been gobbled up.

Easter Recess From the thirtieth of March to the ninth of April many “dads” again enjoyed the opportunity of supporting us at home and feed­ ing us from their own plates. About thirty-five remained in the dormitory, several of whom found work to occupy and enlighten the staleness of the hours. Available rocking-chairs, tables, and pillows became highly popular during the recess. * Vesuvius Club Just before the spring vacation the Vesuvius Club presented its inter-class entertainments. There exists a spirit of rivalry in 17

the perfection of these plays. The Freshman and Sophomore plays were a success. The Junior play was according to popular judgment a bit too long, and somewhat provocative to yawns. The Senior performance had good parts, especially the oratorio, 'The Sunny Maid of France.” The presentation of the three acts was unique in that the whole action centered about the one word “aha.”

YOU HAVE YOUR SONG Very early in its history this school had colors, black and red, it had seals and mottos, it had teams. Ripon, Lawrence, Carroll, Marquette, Beloit came along with their songs and we could satisfy ourselves with listening or croaking some hybrid pickup no band could play, no notes would fit. From time to time therefore the faithful raised the cry “Give us a song like the rest of the schools about us.” And the cry was heard. Fresh off the press, at the price of all sheet music is “Cheer for Old Northwestern.” The music was arranged by Miss Ruth Bolle and the words by Prof.

C. F. BoTle. See the ads for details.

Emerging from the huge drift of various college papers and viewing with dismay the well-nigh impossible task of reading and, to some extent, at least, digesting all the papers, a new and rather bewildered Exchange editor sits in the seat of the scornful critic.

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The first school magazine to impress us was the THE MIR­ ROR, and a splendid impression it made. The Mirror is a month­ ly school magazine published by the students of the Moravian College for women in Bethlehem, Penn. Its avowed purpose is to reflect the life of the college, and this purpose it fulfills. Such enthusiasm, love, and attachments for its Alma Mater is found in very few college papers. It fairly radiates friendliness and cheer.

I'he literary (lepartment is excellent. The stories are individual and well written. The editorial department could be somewhat ex­ tended, but on the whole the magazine is well balanced. The cuts are neat and fitting. In the next issue the staff hopes to present the results of the Poetry Contest. If the Poetry Number is as good as the Short Story Number was, it will be well worth reading.

THE WARTBURG CLARION is a paper which presents its matter in an interesting and easy-to-read manner, but where is the literary department hidden? It would be better if the jokes and witticisms were for llie greater part herded into one column. It is rather disturbing to be reading something of interest or value and then without break or sign to find oneself plunged into the midst of a joke.

THE ORANGE PEAL shows no decided improvement over former issues. It really is a shame to put out a fifth class weekly paper when with less effort blit better results one can publish a first class monthly paper. The write-up on “Religious Tendencies” seems pointless, incoherent, and jerky in style. The assertions made are too sweeping- and decidedly unfair. That “the barriers that once separated denominations are crumbling1’’ would, indeed, l)e laudable if the barriers crumbled through a mutual realization and acceptance of the Truth, instead of through so-called '*broadm.indedness，’’ which is often nothing' but lazy indifference that is willing to accept black as white. “The time was when passages froi]i the Bible were accepted because they were Bible.” Yes, and, be it said with rejoicing, there still are fundamentalists.

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versity of Wisconsin is still causing hysterical outbursts among certain people. THE NEW STUDENT printed some letters writ­ ten by certain students of the University to the “Daily Cardinal.”

One of the students went so far as to break down and weep. All have incredulity and dejection written on their faces. Why ? “Be­ lief in the U. of Wis. and in Wisconsin has dropped out. . . Wis­ ..The consin's ideal of Free Speech has failed the test .

‘Wisconsin Spirit’ of liberalism and free speech is dead.” “Prexy has failed us.” All this hysterical commotion because of a minor matter. It is doubtful if many do feel so downcast and dispirited.

After all there must be some with common sense enough to realize that there is a difference between “free speech” and loose speech.

Even at Northwestern we have at times faint agitations and movements toward acquiring credits, but on the whole we have pretty well escaped from the disease “Credititis.” THE NEW STUDENT quotes H. W. Holmes, dean of the Harvard graduate school of education, as saying: “Education suffers in America from confusion of purposes . . There is no thoroughness or consistency in our school system . . . Our schools suffer from that disease that keeps them permanently enfeebled: ‘credititis,’ the itch for credits, points, units . . . We are a nation of credit hunters and degree worshippers • . . Thus the true worth of study is obscured/*

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BASEBALL With the close of the basketball season attention is once more directed toward our national sport.� Again the old question arises whether baseball will be dropped as a competitive sport in our institution. Most colleges and Normal schools have abandoned baseball. Others are doing so, and devote their time to track, tennis etc. Since we lack facilities and above all a large student-body to make track athletics a success, it is imperative, as long as we can find college teams to oppose us, a matter becoming more difficult every year, that we should devote our energies to putting forth a strong nine.

Results last year were disappointing largely because our men failed to hit the ball at critical moments. This weakness Coach Eickmann is attempting to remedy. There is sufficient material including eight letter men, around which to build a winning team.

In all twenty-five men, led by Captain Hoenecke, who undoubtedly will again play his consistent game behind the bat, appeared on the campus for practice. With two veterans such as Blumenthal and Leerssen on the mound the pitching staff demands little coach­ ing and attention. On first, as in the preceding two years, our lanky Sachs will take up his position. Second base, through the graduation of Voecks is vacant. Armin Rohde, a new man, is making a strong bid for this berth. Zilz, who has ability to stop tlje hottest grounders through short, need fear little competition.

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[♦ ^Jlbxth ^ is equally sure of the last sack. In the outfield we shall miss the sometime spectacular fielding of Kneiske, who on account of a weak heart cannot appear in uniform. Voigt and Fritze, both experienced and both letter men, will each hold a berth in the outfield.

Fritze is practically an all-round man, playing well in the infield and, if occasion demands, behind home-plate. Among the other as pirants “Spike” Eckert, Witt, Baxter, and Nessler look most prom• •m the outfield; in the infield H. Eckert can play either at ismg short or second.

Our first game here with Luther College of Decorah, Iowa on April 16 had to be cancelled, unfavorable weather-conditions mak­ ing it impossible to practice on the diamond before that date, let alone play on it. Manager Redlin has arranged the following schedule: April 20 Lake Forest there.

May 5 Seminary here.

May 11 Lake Forest here.

May 17 Concordia there.

May 18 Armour Tech, there.

May 25 Armour Tech. here.

May 30 Watertown Goslings (tentative).

June 2 Concordia here.

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FOOTBALL This year for the first time spring football practice will be recorded in the sport annals of Northwestern. It is true, we are rather tardy in adopting this system. All our opponents devote a month or more of the early spring to practicing the fundamentals of the game, blocking, tackling, line bucking, etc. Our great handi­ cap has ever been a lack of experienced players to fill the positions vacated by the graduating members. Much green material, as well as the veterans, will be benefited by this system.

All football candidates, save those who aspire to a position on the college nine, will be under the guidance of Coach Binhammer.

Thus, with a month of strenuous practise behind us, we may in the coming autumn with hope look forward to a successful season.

Our team has but a few positions made vacant by graduation, Sufficient green material is present to close these gaps in * the * line, Spring football practise will especially try to teach these new men the game.

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Professor Wcsterhaus's sickness, which necessitated his absence from classes for two weeks before Easter vacation consid­ erably lightened the schedule of his classes. Seven classes looked with green envy upon the Juniors’ one-hour Saturday. Professor Westerhaus has completely recovered.

The Sprinter seemingly thought it was too early to be in training for track, and he appeared one morning with a cigarette; but no one offered him a match and he very probably did not con­ sume the “consoling weed.” Opinion is quite evenly divided as to whether he was just dissipating or whether he was trying to give athletics a gentle hint or a downright slam.

Several of the fellows led by the dauntless Hie Schultz went swimming on March twenty-third. They seemed to think it was quite a feat and they may be disappointed to learn that before April tenth a shy, unassuming little Sextaner had gone swimming three times. When the two blizzards we had are considered, the wouldbe feat of Hie and his followers takes a secondary position.

Timmel was at his home in Oconomowoc recovering from the grippe from the twenty-second until the twenty-seventh of March.

Pless, ’30, has been elected captain of the 1928-1929 basketball team. Pless treated this year’s squad with the customary cam­ paign cigars. Good cigars, Lusch; where’d you get ’em ?

The Freshman Quartet sang at the church service at Lebanon March tw enty-jfifth.

Herman Pape spent the last two- days before Easter vacation in the Sick Room with stomach trouble.

When Old Man Boreas heard about the new spring suits featuring a wallpaper stripe if .necaine sslightly angry, so to say, and sent a blizzard SLn order that not even the

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Siegler, Franzmann, Norbert Paustian, Pussehl, and Haefner took the “side door palace” out of Watertown when school closed March thirtieth. Banty has glowing tales of his experience, but they are too long to repeat here.

Northwestern sent an unofficial delegation of basketball fans to the tournament at Madison. Reich is still complaining about the poor table service at the Cafeteria.

Rutz, Zimmermann, Fleischer, Engel, and Vater packed eggs at Oerding’s egg plant in Watertown during their free clays. Larson turned steam fitter. He was employed by the Frank P. Falck Steam Fitting Company of Morrison, Wisconsin. Hie Schultz did the customary thing by working in a greenhouse in North Mil­ waukee. Spitz Nessler piled wood for a few days. He was in training for baseball.

Mickey Mackdanz spent his vacation in and around Watertown.

Peely Amacher’s voice dropped two octaves during vacation一 cold and so on.

Harold Schulz found Watertown altogether too dead and he shagged home Wednesday and Thursday.

Fritz Reuter also yielded to the old wanderlust and he left “per pedes” Tuesday morning for his home in New Ulm, Minnesota.

Gilbert took Hoenecke, Knoll, and Schewe to Milwaukee by car when school closed. When Swift got back after the recess, he found that some revelers resident in the building has used his room for a “frat house.” Since Swift firmly believes that his home is his castle, he was indignant.

Brownsville exerted a considerable attraction during' vacation.

About twelve were seen there. Shanks Leerssen and Hilschie Os­ wald got homesick with Gerry Martin and he was forced to sub­ stitute Ed Raasch. Raasch suffered from no nostalgia; on the con­ trary he noticed a strong inducement to stay in Brownsville.

Scharf spent half of his vacation in Chicago with Bergfeld.

The two room mates inspected incidentally and wholly unintention­ ally certain activities of the “Dago Bombing Association.” It was no extremely close acquaintance they made; but when they heard windows rattle and felt the terra firma all around them quiver and 24

tremble, they were convinced that the relationship was already too intimate. Scharf says Bergfekl is a real hostess but Bergfeld de­ nies the implication.

Benton Harbor, Michigan, and Chicago attracted Walther and Radloff. They were especially interested in the House of David.

Spike and Zip Eckert also went to Chicago. They spent their free days visiting relatives.

Zilz acted as sponsor at the baptism of his nephew Gerald Marlin—Marquardt. Marty made an unusual trip back to Watertown. He was held up by two train wrecks and arrived eleven hours late.

Vic Schultz and Naumann are usually hoaxed out of a part of their vacation. They find their train connections so poor, that they are forced to spend a night in La Crosse every time they pass through the city. at his studies after having been gone on acDiersen is back ’ count of goitre trouble since the beginning of February, He reports at least temporary relief.

Egbert, Goetz, and List came 1)ack from vacation a day late.

List looked at last year’s calendar and thought he didn’t have to be here until Wednesday. Come up to the times, Ham; get modern.

Arnold Dohratz has decided not to return to Northwestern. • He is suffering from heart trouble and has been absent since the bcginiiing of the second semester.

Kurt Kneiske is also suffering from heart trouble. He will l)c hack very probably before the middle of May. Our much battered and buffeted Skeezix Fenske is again in the hospital. It is reported that he will discontinue his work at Northwestern.

(Cn-iEii Nut服 The greatest wish of the Co-eds has been fufilled; namely, their representation on the Black and Red Staff! Margaret Schmeling, }29, now has charge of the “Exchanges.”

These sudden transformations in the weather have been rather dubiously observed. We joyously proclaimed that spring had ar­ rived and thought that it would not be so outrageous as to disappear so abruptly. Then, too, the Girls’ Rooms were very well heated, and each of us took care that the doors were tightly closed. Surely the latter was a strong indication of a permanent spring, because no one had been guilty of such an act during- the winter.

Those few balmy days which we had were enough to encourage the proverbial ailment.

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As a result, Alice Dierker, Mully, and Evelyn roller-skated one evening after French class. The following morning, however, we were convinced that the consequences were not so pleasant as the anticipations had been. As the results were very injurious to the participants, the rest of us should profit by their sad experience and proceed rather cautiously on roller .skates.

Dorothy Pine did have a severe attack of spring fever. With great effort, she studied her music. Exemption was impossible, because she was physically as well as metally fit.

By the way, Dorothy’s favorite word has been “obvious.” As it has held such an “obvious” position in her vocabulary, we wonder what significance the word had for her.

The “prep” students have been justly complaining, because we Co-eds have been making the task of keeping the rooms in order more cumbersome, On March 30, Dorothy Heil and Evelyn Yaeck, through their diligent efforts, certainly redeemed the Co­ eds. It is to be regretted, however, that the “preps” who wit­ nessed the cleaning were in the minority. Each and every one of them, needless to say, would have enjoyed it.

Alice Dierker, Dorothy Pine, and Mully helped Florence Graeszel celebrate her birthday.

Because her home was quarantined, Henrietta GuetzlafF could not spend the Spring Vacation there. Although “there is no place like home,”、ve hope that Watertown was a good substitute.

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Said the editor one day to me “From you I want a poem writ!”

How could I take him seriously To ask of me, who have no wit?

"What can a dunibell like me write Who has such a little brain as I? I think you did it just for spite Why don’t you ask some other guy?” ‘‘Just go ahead, just work and smile And if your poem is no good We’ll heave it on the rubbish pile And use it up for kindling wood.’’’

Such was the answer I received.

And so the burden fell on me Although for weeks I’ve sadly grieved Yet what to write’s a mystery.

I’ve racked my brai n, w hate’er I have, Have gone a week rithout a shave, Have even used carbolic salve, My hair has even lost its wave.

But my attempts proved vain you see And the contents of this little verse I’m sure you will agree with me (For better or for worse)— — 27 =

Is but a minus quantity.

Prof. 4<Wer sind die Dardanier ?”

N. “Die Trojer.”

P. “Wonach benannt?”

N. **Nach den Dardanellen.”

Ein jlinger Gelehrler der vergeblich versucht hatte, Gedichte zu schreiben, verkehrte einst mit Schiller.

Eines Abends setzt sich der gute Mann hin, sammelt alle seine Gedanken zusammen und schreibt: “Die Sonne sinkt mit ihren Strahlenspitzen, hinab bis auf den tiefsten Meeresgrund.”

Waehrend er ueber die naechsten Zeilen nachgruebelt, schlaeft er ein. Schiller, 3er bald darauf ins Zimmer trat, sah die Not des armen Dichters und beendigte den Vers fuer ihn so : “Die angsterfuellten Fische sclnvitzen, und tauchen eiligst auf clen Grund.”

“Now remember,” said the judge, “to tell the whole truth and nothing- but the truth.”

“Golly,” exclaimed the colored defendant, “mah case am as good as lost.”

While three men were riding to work one morning their tipped. One man was thrown clear of the car and hurried to it from the two companions who had been pinned under it. thought you was dead” he said to the first man. The other torted in an awed tone, “I to’t so too.”

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“I see the doctor’s attending him again. What’s he got?”

“Money.”

Tramp :<4Please, ma’am, have you any dinner for a hungry man?

Lady of the House :“Yes—and he’ll be home at twelve to eat it.”

“I knew a man who spent twenty years writing a novel!”

“That’s nothing! I know a man who is spending his whole life finishing one sentence.

“Hello, Ethel! How are you getting on at school?”

“Fine. I’m in the best position in the class.”

'Top, I suppose?”

“No—right at the foot, near the radiators.”

Instructor: “Mr. Jackson, will you please sit down in front?”

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Jackson: “I can’t, sir, I’m not built that way.”

Joe: “Did she ask you to call again?”

Lee: “No, but it amounted to the same thing.”

Joe: “Wliaddya mean?”

Lee: **Well, she said, I’d like to see you come here agin!” <rMy ancestors came over on the Mayflower.”

“It’s lucky they did. The immigration laws are stricter now.”

•‘Did you see that conductor look at you as if you had not paid your fare?”

Yes, and did you see me look at him as if I had?”

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LITERARY— Dr. Marcus Whitman一His Part in American History-------------Spas of the Rhine Valley---------- .35 Wie Bach in seinen Choralsaetzen die Musik dem Texte Anpasst…-38

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THE BLACK AND RED Volume XXXII.

Watertown, Wis., May, 1928

Number 2

Entered nt the Postofllco at Wntrrtown Wis . as second clcss matter under Act of March 3, 1879. Published monthly. Subscription, One Dollar,

DR. MARCUS WHITMAN—HIS PART IN AMERICAN HISTORY Dr. Marcus Whitman M. D. was born at Rushville, New York, September 4, 1802. After studying medicine and after practising for lour years in Canada, he offered his services in 1834 to the American Board of Commissions for Foreign Missions and the next year went west. At this time he did not go beyond the Green Uiver. In 1836, having married, he set out with his wife and three missionaries for Oregon, being the first party to reach the Pacific Coast l)y wagon. They located themselves near what is now Walla Walla, Washington. Emigrants from the States soon followed. During the winter of 1842-1843 Dr. Whitman returned east. The purpose of his winter ride over the mountains and across the bleak plains was, according to a fellow missionary, the Rev. II. PI. Spalding, to save Oregon for the United States; ac­ cording to the “Missionary Herald” he was called back by business relative to the mission. When Dr. Whitman returned in 1843, he was instrumental in leading an emigration train to Oregon. He took up his mission work in Oregon and on November 29, 1847 was massacred by the Cayuse Indians with his wife and a number of companions.

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controversy arose which thirty years after his death made him better known than he had been at any time during his life. There are two possible causes for this extraordinary growth of fame after death. Either the historians of 1850 for an unknown reason knew nothing of Dr. Whitman’s accomplishments, or he did not greatly influence matters of state at his time.

The story that caused Whitman to become famous is briefly this: Early in October of 1842 Dr. Whitman was called from a conference of the mission to visit a sick man at Fort Walla Walla.

While he was there, a company of British immigrants arrived led by the first Catholic priests to settle in Oregon. Dr. Whitman dined in the same hall with the company. During the meal one young priest sprang to his feet and exclaimed, *4Hurrah for Col­ umbia ! America is too late; we have got the country.” The doc­ tor then saw through the plan of the British; he comprehended that by having a majority of British settlers in Oregon, they wish­ ed to make the territory a British colony. Immediately he decided to go to Washington and lay the matter before American officials there, and on his return the next summer to lead out an emigration of American settlers. In spite of objections raised by his wife and his friends, he set out on the third of October 1842 and arrived in Washington on the third of March 1843，having been badly frozen on his journey. He sought ancl obtained an interview with \Vebster, then Secretary of State. But Webster, who lived near Cape Cod, did not see Oregon in the same light that the missionary did； it was said that the United States was about to trade off its claims on Oregon for a cod fishery on the shores of Newfoundland.

Through Senator Linn of Missouri, at that time the foremost leader of the Oregon party, Whitman then obtained an interview with President Tyler. The president said that although the missionary's representations were in direct contradiction to those of Sir George Simpson, superintendent of the Hudson’s Bay Company, the Amencan missionary seemed sincere, ancl he, the president, would use his influence to hold Oregon.

And now after this promise the _ doctor would do the rest by connecting “the Missouri and Columbia rivers with a wagon track so deep and plain that neither sectional strife nor national envy wauld ever blot it out.” Dr. Whitman made good his word by taking to Oregon on his return a train of two hundred wagons, about one thousand people. .This story as a whole was brougt before the public the first time in 1865 by the Rev. H. H. Spalding, twenty-three years after j:he alleged achievement. The story gained credence and Channing in his ^History of the United States” says it almost became an article of faith among certain good people. That the story was new .’in 1865 has been positively denied, but there is no mention of it in documents before this time. In 1848 an enthusiastic young' 31

missionary named Dr. Atkinson arrived in Oregon. For fifteen years he traveled over a great part of the country in his mission work and although he came into contact with niany people from whom he could not have failed to obtain a version of the Whitman story had it existed, the journal he kept mentions nothing of Dr. Whitman's accomplishment. An Oregon pioneer in his diary says that on September 17, 1845, Dr. Whitman and his wife came to his camp with provisions. The missionary talked at some length of his ten years’ stay in Oregon, but the diary is silent as to any services he rendered in saving Oregon to the United States in 18421843. The only documentary evidence prior to 1864 that has been brought forward to show that Dr. Whitman “saved” Oregon is an extract from a book written by a French traveler, and this 1S obtained by using certain ambiguous terms and deceptive phrases in translating the passage. This universal silence of people who, had there been anything to the Whitman story, could not have failed to mention it is significant.

The story about Whitman was spread by people who were supposedly in possessions of the facts about the missionaries’ ride and who could be depended upon to give out a trustworthy report of it. After its initial appearance the legend appeared in several variations. These can be fully treated by saying that they all bear a marked resemblance to Spalding’s original and that undoubtedly the people who advanced them refreshed their memory by reading over the original. Although Mr. \V. H. Gray is considered an in­ dependent witness of the Whitman story, it is sufficient to say that his "History of Oregon” has been criticized by one eminent historinn as “having three faults—lack of arrangement, acrimonious partisanship, and disregard for truth,” and that another authority considers the criticism just.

If we examine documents contemporary with Whitman’s winter journey we find a story different from that of Spalding and its derivatives. Thus from the record of the mission it was decided in Boston on February 23, 1842 to discontinue two branches of the Oregon mission. On September 28 of the same year it was re­ solved at a meeting of the Oregon missions “that Dr. Whitman visit the United States as soon as practicable to confer in regard to the interests of the mission.” The diary which Mr. Elkanah Walker, an officer of the mission, kept during the days of this meeting mentions nothing of Dr. Whitman^ being called to Fort Walla Walla to visit a patient, nor of any political intent of Dr. Whitman’s journey. From several letters of Mrs. Whitman writ­ ten in 1842-1843 it is clear that her husband went east only in the interests of the mission.

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Obviously the account of such a man, which appeared twenty years after the occurrence, will not be taken as trustworthy and reliable evidence when several contemporary writings are in direct con­ tradiction to it.

But an affidavit sworn to by the Rev. Cushing Eel Is prolonged the controversy. The affidavit contends that Dr. Whitman went east to save Oregon to the United States. The document was drawn up on August 23, 1883. The defenders of the Whitman story maintained that here was decisive evidence; Rev. Eeels was a contemporary witness and beyond doubt an honest man; his evidence was conclusive. But such contention would require one to take his evidence based as it is on his recollection after forty years as of equal precision with contemporary written records.

Mr. Eells agreed with them when they were written. Whether it: is through human fallibility of memory or through the influence of subtle suggestion or for reasons less pardonable that his affi­ davit is at variance with those records is beside the point.

• Thus it is shown that the legend which sprang up after Dr. Whitman^ death is without foundation except that he did go east in 1842-1843. From Dr. Whitman’s own statement his visit to Boston dealt only with matters pertaining to his own mission. No contemporary document has ever been found which says that Whitman visited Washington on his trip, although he very probably did. Though the pages of “Niles’ Register” of 1843 contain many insignificant items of Oregon news, they are silent on Whitman.

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likewise silent on Dr. Whitman. “The Life and Speeches of Sen­ ator Linn” makes no mention of the missionary. A bill dealing with the matter Dr. Whitman was interested in, namely govern­ ment protection for emigrant trains and supply stations along the way, had been passed a month before Whitman arrived in ^Wash­ ington. It is clear beyond a shadow of a doubt that Whitman's visit to Washington was without political purpose or historical significance: for had he exerted even the slightest influence, this universal silence could not be explained.

That Whitman organized and led out an expedition to Oregon in 1843 is also untrue. An emigration of that nature had to be planned the fall before it took place. Whitman reached Westport, Missouri, on February 15, 1843. From there he went directly either to Washington or to Boston, for he reached Boston March 30, It is likely that he went to Washington first. He therefore did not organize the company of emigrants. It seems certain that he gave advice to prospective emigrants while on his way east, and it is likely enough that lie may have urged individuaJs to join the company going* to Oregon. It is known that he proposed taking with him “some five or ten men.” But he did not organize and conduct the inimi^ration of 18^13 to Oregon. He wrote from St. Louis on liis return journey that lie did not consider it good to attempt, to take families out that year except such as were ready to leave. Two weeks later, on May 27, he wrote that he antici­ pated an easy journey, because lie had no one depending upon him.

He overtook an emigration train on the North Platte River and piloted it from there to Oregon. This was his service in the im­ migration of 1843. Wliili^ian later declared that the interest of Oregon hinged on the success of this immigration, but there is no conclusive evidence to show that without his services the expedi­ tion would have met with disaster.

A question asked in support of the Whitman legend is why [:he missionary did not wait until summer to set out instead of leav­ ing in fall and enduring untold hardships along the way. Had he d?ne so, he would have found it necessary to remain away from his wife and from the missions for a longer time than he did, for }le could have returned to Oregon the same summer. Whitman intended, as is seen from one of his wife’s letters to her parents, to cross the mountains during October and reach St. Louis about the first of December. He was caught in an early snowstorm in Colorado and changed his course toward the South. This ac­ counts for the delay. The question is also put why he first went Washington if his main purpose was in Boston. His purpose _ Washington was to ask Congress to make emigration from the States to Oregon easier and more s^,fe. A delay of several days after the adjournment of Congress ori March 4 might be very det34

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The real history of Whitman is as follows: Sent out in 1836 as missionary among the Oregon Indians, he established a prosperous station. In 1842 he was ordered to give up the station but at the same time a company of immigrants arrived with the information that the United States was going to occupy Oregon and that many people intended to follow their footsteps. If the Protestant mission was abandoned, the Catholic mission, then just beginning its work there, would have unhindered sway. He real­ ized that if anything was to be done, he must set out immediately ； and if immigration was going to assume large proportions, the government ought to lend its protection and help. For these reasons he set out in 1842.

That Dr. Whitman was a heroic person and a sincere mission­ ary and that he braved unknown perils and endured uncounted hardships on his winter ride is without question. That he deserves to be remembered in connection with the early history of Oregon and Washington may also be taken for granted. But that he “saved” Oregon or that he is a national figfure in our history must be rejected as a perversion of facts.

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SPAS OF THE RHINE VALLEY Nature has favored Germany with an unusual number of medi­ cinal springs, most of which are in the western part of Germany, especially in the west central part. According to old records, the Romans knew about these springs and used them. A number of these health resorts are to be found in the far famed valley of the Rhine, namely, Ems, Neuenahr, Kreuznach, the inter-nationally known Weisbaden, Schwalbach, which lies a little east from the Rhine and north of Weisbaden, and Bertrich, which nestles on the left bank of the Moselle among vine clad hills slightly southwest of Coblenz awcl a few others farther south. .Neuenahr is a health resort built around numerous springs and is enclosed by verdant hills along the Ahr, a streamlet flowinginto the Rhine about midway between Bonn and Coblenz. The waters of Neuenahr are recommended for most disorders of the digestive system, gout, diabetes, and kindred ailments. These springs are less concentrated than the average, while two of them occupy the unique position of being the only alkaline springs in Germany, the、waters bubbling forth at a temperature of about 96 degrees F. The new spacious Kurhaus, one of the most up-to-date in Germany, and its modern hotels and tidy boarding-houses have 35

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Bad Kreuznacli, on the other hand, is known in Europe for its radium brine waters. It snuggles among hills through which the gentle Nalic winds and then empties into the Rhine a few miles farther down. Because of the salt in the air the climate in the summer is strikingly cool. 丁liese radium springs have been found to be fifty times stronger than any other. Baths different from those of Neucnahr are taken there, such as oxygen and carbonic acid baths and radium emanation bead baths. Kreuznach was founded by the Romans, and as then, so today it is an important city. One outstanding reason for its fame is that it is in an im­ portant wine-growing district. Its population is about thirty thou­ sand, and its sanitary conditions together with its schools have received an enviable reputation. As at most of the resorts, there are numerous out-door sports, concerts, dancing, theatre performances of all kinds, and moving pictures. Last year during July the international tennis tournament was staged there and in the same month a national swimming festival. Besides these there were hockey tournaments, horse races, motor races, and a huge (lancing tournament in the Kurhaus topped the summer season, which is the main season, although the resort is open the year round. From here delightful excursions may be made to the Mo­ selle, to the Rhine and its wonders, to the huge forests, and to cities round about, which are all in close proximity to Kreuznach.

Bad Kreuznach is readily reached because all express trains from Paris to Berlin and from Holland to points south pass through there. The nearest air-port is Frankfort-on-the-Main, just ninety minutes by rail, from where one can easily reach any important city on the Continent.

Every year the cosmopolitan spa Wiesbaden attracts more and more visitors from all parts of the world. The city lies a few miles north from the Rhine, and Mainz lies across the Rhine. Wies­ baden is located in a valley of the densely wooded Taunus inountaii?s with the agreeable result that it has mild winters, early springs, summers free from stifling heat and sultriness, and a gradual transition from one season to another. It has fitly been called the “Riviera north of the Alps.” Foreigners have built many mansions and villas along its shady boulevards and near its won­ derful parks. According to chronicles the ancient Teutons worshipped at the springs found here, and the conquering Romans knew of the healing qualities of their waters. These springs, of which there are about twenty-five, gush forth from an immense 36

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Standing by the railing and watching the water boil lip in its huge cement pit, one wonders where the water comes from, and what the source of the heat during the centuries has been. One shudders to think what would happen to any of the waitresses in their snow white dresses if they should fall headlong into the boiling, writhing cauldron as they stoop to fill their ever empty pails. A great many private bath houses are connected with certain of these public springs while others receive water from their own springs.

The Kaiser Friedrich Bad is the largest establishment of this kind and can accomodate nearly three thousand bathers at one time.

Not only in the sanitariums but also in the majority of hotels, meals to suit even the most particular diets are prepared. A cure that is fast becoming popular is the “grape cure,” which is to be found especially at these Rhenish resorts where the grape vine is king1.

Every morning between nine o’clock and noon this cure can be taken. After selecting a large bunch of grapes personally, the patient gives them to a maid behind the bar who runs them through a press. About half a pint of juice runs out. It must take half an hour to drink this, but that time flies rapidly while one is chatt­ ering with a neighbor who is doing likewise. Besides, there are cer­ tain prescribed exercises and diets, all of which is positively rejuvenating.

Wiesbaden has a population of about a hundred and ten thou­ sand and readily accomodates the thousands that arrive during the summer. The social life of the spa centers around the Kurhaus, an imposing Roman structure with magnificently decorated rooms.* After one has played a game of chess in the “Gold Salon” and then comes out into the open, he feels as if he had been in a different world. The orchestra is always conducted by famous directors,1 and its concerts are attended 1)y great numbers. Scientists and well-kno\vn lecturers give addresses throughout the year. The presentations of the Wiesbaden opera house are second to none.

Dramas are produced in the theatres, and its museums and libraries can always be profitably visited.

Most people desire to" visit Europe, but they think that only the wealthy have that longed-for opportunity. But times have changed, for anyone can make the trip to Europe and stay at a German spa for about six weeks with an expenditure of about three hundred and fifty dollars. The ocean trip also is invigorating, es­ pecially so on our modern liners where seasickness is virtually un­ heard of. Americans will be surprised to find Germany far more to their liking and far more similar to their own country than France.

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Bach lebte zu der Zeit, als die Pietisten in der Kirche die Oberhand batten. Die Kirchcnmusik, besonders der Gemeindegesang, dem Luther in seiner Reformation die so bedeutende Stellung geben hatte war zu seiner Zeit sehr heruntergekommen. In der Dichtung von Musik and Liedern hatte eine spielende, suessliche, in subjekliver Empfindung, schwelgende Richtung ueberhand genommen. Bach merkte die Fehler der Zeit und setzte sich als Lebensziel, die Musik der Kirche vor der Verflachung der Pietisten zu retten und sie auf eine moeglichst hohe Stufe zu bringen. Daher beschaeftigte er sich auch groesstenteils mit Kirchenmusik, und unter seinen Werken befinden sich eine grosse Anzahl von Kantaten, Passionen, Oratorien, und Motetten.

Unter der schoensten Musik, die aus der Werkstube Bachs hervorkam, sincl seine Choralgesaenge. Urspruenglich waren diese Teile von groesseren Werken. Aber bald nach Bachs Tode, machte sein Sohn sich ans Werk, diese Choralbearbeitunigen aus den verschiedenen Oratorien und Kantaten zu sammeln, und sie im Druck als vollstaendige Ausgabe erscheinen zu lassen. Nebst dieser Sammlung von Karl Ph. E. Bach erschienen im Laufe der Zeit noch vier andere, von denen die bedeutendste und heutzutage am haeuf. igsten gebrauchte Ausgabe die ist, die von Ludwig Erk zusammengestellt wurde.

Bachs Lieblingschoral scheint die Melodie â&#x20AC;&#x153;Herzlich tut mich verlangen>, gewesen zu sein. Sie findet sich in seinen Werken sehr oft. In dem ersten Band von Erks Sammlung ist sie sechsmal zu finden, im zweiten viermal. Bachs Groesse zeigt sich in diesen Bearbeitungen nicht nur in der meisterhaften Anwendung von *)Vortrag bei einer Versammlung der Phi Gamma Rho Literary Society, wobei die angegebenen Choraele auf dem Klavier gespielt wurden.

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Die erste Bearbeitung, die Erk angibt, ist aus der Kantate “Schau lieber Gott, wie meine Feind:’’ Ungefaehr in der Mitte dieser Kantate braucht Bach die fuenfte Strophe des Liedes “早efiehl du deine Wege” zu der vorhei. erwaehnten Melodie “Herzlich tut mich verlangen.” Die Anfangsvvorte dieser Strophe lauten: “Und obgleich alle Teufel hie wollten widerstehen, so wire! doch ohne Zweifel Gott nicht zuruecke gehen.” Gott bietet alien Teufeln Trotz. Und ob sie alle sich wiclersetzlen, so wird doch Gott nicht weichen. Er wird feststehen. Diese Festigkeit zeigt sich auch in diesem Choral. Jeder Akkord spricht den Teufeln Hohn. Die gauze Harmonie zeigt die Missachtung vor der Feinde Macht.

Gleich der erste Akkord faengt den Choral mit einer Dissonanz an.

Jede Stimme, besonders der Bass, hat einen festen Lauf.

Der zweite Choral, den Erk uns bietet, ist den Worten der sechsten Strophe des Liedes “Ach Herr mich armen Suender” angepasst als Schlussgesang einer Kantate unter diesem Namen. Der Wortlaut ist folgendermassen: “Ehr sei ins Himmels Throne mit. allem Ruhm und Preis deni Vater und dem Sohne und auch zu gleicher Weis, dem heilgen Geist zu Ehren in alle Ewigkeit! der woll uns All’n bescheren die e'v’ge Seligkeit.” Es ist ein inniger Lobgesang zur Ehre Gottes. Es ist ein ernstes Gebet um die Seligkeit. Bach gibt auch seinem Choral diese Stimmung und jauchzt Gott Lob und Preis und freut sich kindlich ueber Gottes Gnade.

Seine Harmonie wird einfacher und heller, seine Stimmen fllessen leichter. Er trotzt nicht mehr in den dump fen Dissonanzen, und der Choral wird nicht mehr von schweren Akkorden zurueckgehalten und verzoegert. Seine Musik bricht mit dem Dichter aus in den Preisgesang Gottes. , Nun gibt uns Erk Bachs Satz in der Matthaeus-Passion zu zwei Versen von.“0 Haupt voll Blut und Wunden.” Bach empfindet mit dem Dichter das Leid und die Trauer der ganzen Christenheit ueber die schaendliche Mishandlung nnd ueber (las unsaeg'liche Leiden ihres Heilandes. Den Sclimerz Christi, das Stechen der Dornen, die Schlaege ins Gesicht, den Spott der Soldaten und Juden beweint auch die Musik. Was uns zuerst in Bachs Bearbeitung auffaellt, ist die Tonart. Er ist nun nicht mehr bei der festen, hohnsprechenden, oder bei der ernsten, lobpreisenden Tonart, die wir in den beiden vorigen Saetzen fanden. Hier singt er in einer etwas 39

hoeheren, traurigen Weise. Dazu seufzt er in schmerzhafter Har­ mon ie, die das Leiden Christi zu vollem Ausdruck bringt. Die Akkorde weinen und wimmern, und die Stimmen jammern, obwohl fest und mannhaft, ihre Trailer.

Noch ein Choral aus der Matthaeus Passion, ist die naechste Bearbeitung, zu der Bach (lie bekannte neunte Strophe (lesselben Liedes brauchte: “Wamvich einmal soil scheiden.” Es ist wiederum ein Gebet, aber nicht ein jauchzendes, jubelndes, sondern eine ernste Bitte 11 m Beisland in der letzten Stunde. Bach benutzt diesselbe Ton art des vorigen Gebets und sucht in einfacher, zuversichtl icher Form seine Hilfe fuer die Sterbestunde. Wir brauchen dcn Satz mir zu hocrcn, um uns von (lem kindlichen Vertrauen, das cr Gott schenkt, zu ueberzeugen.

Der letzte Choral in Erks Sammlung ist auch aus der Matthaeus Passion und auf die Strophe “Befiehl dujleine Wege** angewandt. Das Vertrauen, class Gott uns zu alien Zeiten und auf alien Ortcn leitcn wire! und will, schcnkl auch Bach seinem Schoepfer.

Wic gross sein Vcrtrauen ist, sehen wir schon in der Tatsache, dass er den Choral in eincr Dur Tonart bearbeitet. Dies ist das einzige Mai, das er diese Mclodie in Dur schreibt. Auch seine Harmonie ist hcllklingcnder und freudiger, und die Stimmen,—ich denke besonclers an den Hass,—bewegen sich freier.

Noch auf eins moeohte ich in Verbindung mit der letzten Bearbeitung hinweisen. Es fimlet sich dort ein treffliches Beispiel, 'vie Bach seine Musik deni Texte anpasst. Die Worte lauten so: “Der Wolken, Luft und Winden giht Wege, Lauf und Bahn.” Die Musik ermoeglicht cs eineni wirklicli, die Wolken in den Winden wirbeln zu sehen. IHach fuehrt die verschiedenen Stimmen wirr durcheinancler, gleicli 'vie am Himmel die Wolken vom Winde durcheinander getrieben werden, aber er loest das Durcheinander bald auf in i emer ruhigen Kadenz, wie auch nach dem Sturm Sonnenschein wieder durch die Wolken bricht. Wir werden dies besser verstehen, wenn wir es selber hoeren.

Zuni Schluss moechte ich nur kurz sagen, dass wenn auch Bach viele andere klassische Musik geschaffen hat, so sind doch seine Choralsaetze nicht zu vergessen, denn gerade in diesen kann man Bachs Groesse als Meister in der Musik erkennen.

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STUDY WITH AN AIM Very frequently accepted by students as an axiom in their views on education is the opinion that the various branches of study should normally radiate interest; and to the application of this very axiom a number of unhealthy developments among students can to the greater part be traced. Primarily among these developments is a promiscuous habit of criticism on courses and teaching methods into which students fall who, because they have not worked at a subject when it was started, since that assumed intrinsic allurement of the study did not react on them, have finally fallen out of touch with the material. Usually the students who support the abovQ axiom are also in a quandary when they are to choose a definite course for some vocation and gi'umble if the expectation or direct wish of a parent has determined their course, all because no set of studies has violently attracted them. Again such students are prone to dream about the better opportunities at other schools and about their ideally arranged courses. Especially students of smaller schools are wont to look with yearning eye to­ wards the realms of higher institutions as meads so much greener and so much more sunny.

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MILITARY DRILL OR COMPETITIVE SPORTS? After more than thirty years of existence our military com­ pany is in the last feeble throes of impending extinction. From a once vigorous and flourishing student organization it has sunk to its present languid condition. During the last decade it has stead­ ily declined, so that today it is an aimless, nugatory unit, a mere farce and the laughing-stock of the institution. Strict rules of order are no longer enforced. Regular drill periods are seldom ob­ served, and only a few students still have uniforms. Something must he done to improve this sorry state of affairs.

According to the present system it is impossible to arrange the drill periods so that athletics and military drill are not con­ stantly interfering with each other. Because of the limited size of the gymnasium it is impossible for the entire company to drill a! one time during the winter months. If the company were divid?c.l, and each section were given its regular drill periods, com­ petitive basketball would practically be eliminated. The problem, therefore, finally dwindles down to the question—military drill or competitive sports ? *'Competitive sports must give way to military drill/* says one 42

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of the authorities. Perhaps they will, but we can hardly see why they must. The alleged purpose of drill at our institution is three­ fold :Drill provides the necessary exercise for those who take part in no other form of athletics; it trains the body and mind to act in unison; and it teaches the cadet discipline. These reasons are bland and at first sound plausible, but we are inclined to be quite skeptical about all of them. Drill as it has been carried out during the last few years does not provide as much exercise as a corres­ ponding period of almost any sport would. Do we not have ample opportunity to get exercise from football, basketball, baseball, gym­ nastics, tennis, swimming, and skating ? Only a very few of us do not take advantage of these opportunities, and one or two half-hour periods of indifferent, loathesome, so-called military drill hardly gives the student enough exercise for a week. If the student does not participate in any other sport, the few scattered periods of drill amount to practically nothing. If lie does take other exercise, he could use the time spent in drilling to good advantage. We believe that almost every kind of athletics trains the mincl to function in unison with the body, better than military drill does. Considering the discipline of the younger students, we take it that that could be left in the hands of the faculty and upper classmen. As for the older students, we are of the opinion that they can train themselves as well as the freshman corporals can. There certainly is something manly, noble, and admirable about the air and port of a man who has had military training. But we hardly have the necessary means and time to make any progress toward inculcating such a bearing on our students.

Some argue that the military company must be retained, be­ cause the band will go with the company, since many band mem­ bers are in the band only to avoid drill. The truth of the state­ ment is very questionable, but we shall grant that it is true. The very remark from a man who is arguing for the retention of drill shows that even he concedes that drill is very unpopular among the students, not only unpopular, but that it is hated and shunned them. Have men who enter the band merely to avoid drill welfare of the band in view, and can such men be an asset to the band ? Could we not do much. more toward exciting1 interest in the band by arranging a few concerts in some of the near-by cities during the year ? It has been said that students who would not enter our college because we did not have competitive sports are not wanted here. Perfection in athletics surely should not cind cannot be the aim of our college, but the contention that students who take an active interest in athletics cannot do their work prop­ erly and cannot be of value to their school is very incorrect. To­ day education and competitive sports run hand in hand, and the average student is inclined to pay some attention to the athletics 43

at the school which he is about to enter. “Competition will spell the downfall of our college life and our old spirit,” complains one.

Just what does the man mean? We are living today, and we must comply somewhat with the general inclinations of those about us.

The present tendency in the schools is not, as some may believe, to break away from competitive sports. It is perhaps in theory, but not in practice. Surely, Wisconsin is not building a new field house and an addition to its stadium for intramural athletics or military drill.

It is utterly impossible for us to carry out military drill as it really should be carried out. Since this is the case, why should we sacrifice competitive sports for a perfunctory military company ?

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Northwestern has become a school with three major athletic sports, and a council of five students under the tutelage of an ath­ letic director manage all affairs. One is often tempted to ask whether this group is capable of handling the entire schedule; more than once a (loul)thil answer is given. Although one would not care to change the routine of the functions of this group lightly, still times and conditions have undergone such changes within the last few years, that we would deem it advisable that a new system be introduced.

We should not contemplate the total dissolution of our ath­ letic board, but all letter men should organize themselves into a body which would work in conjunction with the athletic board, Thus the athletes would have an opportunity of presenting their views and introducing new regulations for the benefit of our col­ lege athletics. Questions have arisen in our athletic board and members have been unable to cope with the situation; again with the adoption' of new regulations, they have been unable to enforce them. To give these few individuals the necessary enforcement power, all letter men at Northwestern should be granted permissio.n to organize. Their duties should consist in assisting the ath­ letic board and doing the executive work relative to Northwestern’s regulations governing athletics. .rhe writer hopes that his fellow students will put forth their views on this matter and present further suggestions, so that more harmony might exist between the athletic council and the student body. Northwestern is growing and we want to see it grow, con­ sequently we must be in keeping with the conditions and times. As the writer sees the matter, the only possible solution is a letter club.

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JVUllL —O. E. Platt, *10, recently accepted the Assistant Professorship of Biology at the university of Boston, having received the degree of D. Sc. from Harvard last February. His dissertation is to ap­ pear next fall as a semi-popular book with an introduction written

by Dean Wheeler of Harvard. ―With deep grief we note the passing away of Rev. Hans Roller Moussa, ’00，of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin on April 27. His death was caused by sudden complications which set in after a seemingly sucessful operation on ulcers of the stomach at Rochester. Rev. Moussa, who was ever an ardent friend and supporter of his former Alma Mater, was for many years President of the Northwestern Alumni Association and a member of the College Board of Trustees. f；

—The President Adams Graduate Fellowship in Modern History has been granted to Hilmer Krueger, ’25，for next year by the History Department of the University of Wisconsin as its highest award, given in recognition of research ability. The recipient is obligated to no teaching but is to devote his entire time to research and writing. 一Dr. .. Ray 、 Stark, ex ’17, has opened an office in the Majestic Building, Milwaukee. He is married to a daughter of Rev. T. G. Pohley, ’94. " 一Miss Gertrude Miller, ex *28, has been elected to the Phi Beta Kappa, honorary Greek letter society of the University of Wis­ consin, as one among the forty seniors chosen from a class of 1700.

—Rev. I. Uetzmann, '22, and family of Pickett, Wisconsin, paid Northwestern a visit on May 2, while our band was giving an aftersupper concert. Probably in order to inspire his little son with an 45

early interest for Northwestern, “Monie” resumed his former duties at the cornet and before the directing stand.

—Helmuth Sonnenberg, who spent a year at Northwestern with the class of ’30, was recently engaged to Elvira Carsten of Mani­ towoc.

—We announce the birth of a daughter to Rev. and Mrs. Gus­ tav Krause, ’22, of a son to Rev. and Mrs. Paul Behn, ex. academy ，19.

—With regard for their new pastor’s immediate comfort the congregation of Surprise, Nebraska, installed a Delco Light plant in Rev. Horlanius’，’24，parsonage. His colleagues of the open West are, to say the least, surprised at such an unpredecented lux­ ury.

—Rev. Rueben Marti *22 stopped at Northwestern on May 2.

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SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER The literary societies in their present form are on the verge of giving： the death-rattle, and although they have experienced in the last year a momentarv revival it was like a last nervous shiver.

The time has come when a literary program means for many no more than an evening off, a chance to get an occasional laugh, or to spend a congenial hour. How is it possible that there can be any interest for encyclopedical speeches and two-minute poems for which the speaker had to wrack his brain, by which the audience had to be bored to death, and which arc soon forgotten ? Indeed, we believe that the very fragmentary and patch-work nature of these programs with their bits of this and superficial tatters from that makes them of no efleet. One has nothing for his time. In short, one derives very little benefit from them. One might in­ deed get more satisfaction and pleasure by staying in his corner and reading a good three-act play.

It is at such a critical point that the leaders turned to drama­ tics. This art opens a wide field; there is interest there for cveryone. It is not to be understood, however, that the societies will crush immediately and altogether the older forms, but new life and new interest will be infused, more will be given a chance to participate by the presentation of these short plays err parts of plays with explanations of the action preceding or following the episode staged. A larger production will then crown the season as “She Stoops to Conquer” has this one.

On the night of April 27 the societies faced the public with a chip on their shoulders; the public did not dare knock it off. Gold­ smith's comedy played to a full house. There was no noise from 48

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Tony Lumpkin, Mrs. Hardcastle’s son l)y a previous marriage.............................. .....................Sieghard Westendorf Kate Hardcastle, intended for Young Marlow............ Alice Bentzin Margaret Schmeling Constance Neville, engaged to Hastings Gerhard Struck Jack Slang Tony’s Companions Alfred Maaske Dick Muggins Rudolph Timmel at the Alehouse Tom Twist Walter Nessler Aminadab Stingo, landlord of the “Three Jolly Pigeons” ..... Raymond Zimmermann Alfred Sauer Young Marlow, intended to Miss Hardcastle .Gerold Martin Charles Hastings, engaged to Miss Neville Diggory, servant to the Hardcastles ............ .Alfred Maaske .. Evelyn Yaeck Maid to Miss Hardcastle.......... .....................

Gerhard Struck Jeremy, servant to Young Marlow.

Sir Charles Marlow_____________ ..Hilton Oswald The societies are deeply indebted to Prof. E. C. Kiessling for his interest and untiring efforts in the directing of this movement.

His assistants were Martin Franzmann and Erwin Scharf. The stage was under the management of H. Vogel. After the play the cast and all those connected with the play were entertained at the home of Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Ott. We hope that this first movement will have established a prece­ dent. We hope it has stimulated dramatic interest. A year ago people shook their heads—a difficult play here, impossible! But in our opin­ ion a difficult play is easier and more instructive for the players as well as for the audience. Psychologically, the effect of a play like this or of the type of the Merchant of Venice is that more interest is taken and more energy is used in its production, thus making its showing infinitely better, and thus giving more satisfaction to both cast and house. Perhaps we could even wish that students would try their skill at dialogue, at short-play writing or at least on top­ ics relative to the drama of all ages. Added to all this is the educa-

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tional value of the settings and the costumes especially, although we might say here that a Shakespearean of Jonsonian play given in modern attire, with golf breeches, revolvers and telephones would be a splendid undertaking.

BLACK AND RED BANQUET There can be no doubt that the tasty viands had a hard time of it awaiting the arrival of the Black and Red staffs, old and new, on the evening： of the fourteenth of April, for the bell rang half an hour loo soon. Reports will have it that some of the men fasted for a day and a half previous lo the event; however, after long inliltle painstaking investigation it seems that torviews and after this statement is somewhat exaggerated. The catering and most of aH tlic display of cookery would have made Nero chuckle with glee and twang off a hymn of pra'se to any of the lucky gods who happened to have given him his gullet. Ah, the port, the browned chicken, the salad, the cake, the desert—but, our salivary glands begin to show symptoms of reaction. After the meal the follow­ ing five departing; slalT-mcm1)ers received the rewards of their deeds, their letters : M. Franzmann, H. Vogel, G. Redlin, R. Zimmermann and W. Amacher.

ARBOR DAY Arbor day tomorrow ? A week passed and the question was repeated. Another week, and it snowed; another and it rained.

The sun rose Friday, April the twentieth, on a cool day. After breakfast the announcement came that the long-wished-for d was here, hooks were slung aside and old clothes donned, parts the band blared out a few tunes, rakes and wagons came on the scene and at eight o’clock the whole school was at work. Once more in the course of the revolving years the first three classes of the high-school department raked leaves in the park while the seniors hitched themselves to two or three wagons and gathered the leaves. Freshman of the college found theirs no easy task this year. The baseball diamond was as yet barely in a condition to work at. The wetness of the ground made the work hard and dis­ agreeable. Sophomores followed the pioneers in the trimming and cutting down of trees and shrubbery. To avoid any jealously from the African bushmen or the Australian tree-dwellers we keep mum about the attainments in tree climbing of some of them. The Jun­ iors kept to their task as overseers and providers, for at 10:30 o’ clock a lunch of lemonade and rye-sandwiches was served. No SO

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casualties are reported from the rushing after bread, but the idea struck us that the Pied Piper of Hamel in ought to have had sand­ wiches or lemonade instead of a pipe, The Seniors were kept worried trying to find something to amuse themselves with.

The girls busied themselves about their rooms. The greater part of the work was finished before dinner. After dinner, ac­ cording lo the custom the band gave a short [concert; the Sophomores planted their tree in silence and without the usual bath-robe ritual, in view of the fact that trees of former years set out with too much glitter have died within the year.

Wordsworth pens a thought seemingly meant for the occasion : This solitary tree! A living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed.

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1 Before expressing our opinion of other papers, let us thank The Comenian,” “St. Josephs Collegian,M and “The Mirror” for so favorably expressing theirs of the “Black and Red.”

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The Augsburg Echo, published by the students of Augsburg1 Se minary, Minneapolis, Minnesota, is a good agee school paper, with the exception that iit contains few or no jokes, and jokes are lavished profusely on most other papers. What 51

is pro1)ably of most interest to those readers who are not actively concerned with occurrences at the Seminary, is the column wStuclent’s Mind,” in which the students give vent to their opinion and ideas on various conditions prevailing or threatening to prevail m their Seminary. “I’m the Guy” gives a word sketch of the week’s most outstanding “Campus pest”； one time the brag眾art gets his medicine the next time the gossip-monger gets what’s coming to him. The “Guy” is ably sketched. 氺氺氺 The Hemnica of Red Wing, Minnesota could be improved by extending the editorial department. In the April sixteenth issue only two editorials could be found after a diligent search. The pro and con, “Uli-Huh” and “Nay,” on the debatable utterance “Gentlemen prefer blondes” 111 i the same issue was very amusing and cnterlaining. 本 The Augustana Observer, a weekly paper by the students of Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, manages to present its material of wholly local interest in such a manner that outsiders, too, find it of interest: an achievement not to 1>e lightly overlooked!

We find ourselves sympathetically pleased with them, that their concert band is to make a tour of the mid-western and eastern states, which to judge by the advance ticket sales, will be a high suc­ cess.

The Racquet, weekly paper of the La Crosse State Teacher's college, is rather disappointing;. 丁lie good points of the paper are lost in the general disturbing impression that the staff is trying desperately to put out a paper fairly sparkling and scintillating with the commonly accepted stamp of College wit and light-hearted slang. The profuse slang is disturbing and the sparkling (?) wit seems forced. Why not be a bit more natural ?

According to the Klan testimony before the Federal Court a number of weeks ago, that organization hopes some day to have its own college. 、

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—The New Student 本氺木 And here’s an idea from the Beloit Round Table that could bear a little thought: “A great deal of so-called faculty conservatism results from lack of confidence in the student body, and a great measure of student distrust of the administration results from an entire lack of thought upon some of the most significant problems which the administration must face.”

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NORTHWESTERN 10, LAKE FOREST 5 After practising but a few evenings on a makeshift diamond, the baseball team left to play Lake Forest, a team till then of an unknown quality. Weather conditions were anything but ideal for good baseball. Low temperature and lack of practise, no cloubt, accounted largely for the seventeen errors. Coach Brown’s men had thirteen of these chalked against them; Northwestern had but. four. The game was a slow, tedious, long drawn-out affair. The thirty-four minute duration of the first half of the initial inning tells the tale.

Coach Eickmann had since the opening of baseball season been trying to improve the batting eye of the team. The result was immediately apparent. Captain Hoenecke opened the game with a two-bagger. Not to be outdone, his loyal teammates, as­ sisted by several costly errors of the opponents, knocked the ball all over the lot. In short, thirteen men, bringing in eight runs, faced the two rival pitchers that Coach Brown called on to stem this spurt. The heydey o’er, our men relapsed into an inoffensive attitude during the next seven frames. Lake Forest，s third pitcher, Hunt, entering in the second inning-, probably accounts for this torpor. In the last inning Northwestern, recovering from their mighty effort at the opening, again drove in two runs.

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1 less, brought in two runs in their first attempt at the bat. scored again in the second, fifth, and eighth innings.

Lake Forest Northwestern AB AB R H E 6 6 2 2 1 Pratt, If Hoencckc, c 5 6 12 1 Ferzacca, ss Sachs, lb 5 6 12 0 Roskie, cf Zilz, ss 4 6 110 Rowtowski, lb Blumcnthal, rf 5 5 111 Macklin, rf Fritze, If 5 4 110 Burke, 2b Kasischkc, 3b 5 5 110 Stang, 3b Lcersscn, p 2 4 2 0 1 Palmer, c Rolulc, 2b 0 5 010 Orth, p Voigt, cf 0 --------------- Burke, p 2 46 10 10 4 Lincke, c Total: 3 Hunt, p Total:

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NORTHWESTERN 3, SEMINARY 2 In the week intervening between the Lake Forest game and our second game Coach Eickmann knocked off some of the rough edges, so that Northwestern was ready to meet the Seminary in their traditional game with a smoothly functioning team. The game was rather colorless, if we except a few good catches, not on account of poor playing but because the pitchers carried the great­ est burden, allowing but few hits.

The “Sein” gave us an unexpectedly close run. The game started most inauspiciously for the visitors. Niemann struck out; Albrecht calmly waited until the pitcher had given him four balls and then complacently trotted to first. Lounging in blissful se­ curity but a few strides from the base, he was caught napping and declared out by the umpire. Fischer flied out to Voigt. The next two inning's were but a repetition of the first one. In the fourth their latent power found its first expression. Albrecht struck out most ingloriously; the redoubtable Fischer slammed °ut a clean two-base hit; Sprengler duplicated the feat, scoring Fischer. Zink and Kuske failed to rise to the occasion and were thrown out at first.

The sixth inning witnessed the “Sem’s” last threat and final score. Rohde failed to stop Niemann’s fast grounder; on the next delivery Niemann sped toward second, arriving safely; Fischer sacrificed, putting Niemann on third; Sprengler now hit an easy fly into the field. Leerssen and Voigt, both desiring to show their prowess in catching an easy one, knocked heads and let* the ball drop. Niemann scored.

Our first scores came in the third inning" when Rohde drove a hit over first base; Hoenecke, after twice fouling in an attempt to 54

built，was struck out; Sachs drove through short, advancing Rohde to third; Zilz smashed a hot one past the pitcher, bringing in two runs.

In the sixth inning we tallied again. Zilz slammed a hit be­ tween first and second, and stole second on the next pitch. Fritze also hit through first, and Zilz counted. Our giant Leerssen now knocked a gentle hit into left field but the other men failed to connect safely.

Though not replete with thrills, the game showed us several fast double plays and two spectacular catches by Franzmann and Hoenecke.

Northwestern Hoenecke, c Sachs, lb Zilz, ss Blumenthal, p Fritze, If Leerssen, rf Kasischke, 3b Voigt, cf Rohde, 2b Total:

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An attraction from Milwaukee called Ruben Kettenacker and Willmar Wichmann to the seventh ward Sunday April 29th. They report a very good time. Wichmann is the culprit.

Engel attended the wedding of his brother at St. John:s church April 14th. The Freshman Quartette sang for the occasion.

The Sick Room is crowded. With the coming of spring weathcr all those colds which have been waiting their opportunity to incapacitate some unfortunate have taken on definite seriousness.

The Sophs planted their class tree Arbor Day, April 20th.

Koehler christened the tree Elmer, either because thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s his name or because it is an elm. Peters was the chief speaker. Even the profs liked his oratory.

List and Gauerke went to Milwaukee to visit Fenske the same (lay. Skeezix was operated upon the twenty-fourth. He is reported to be convalescing, although he will not be able to leave the hospital for some time.

Victor Lehmann was at his home in Hustisford for about ten clays recovering from the grippe.

Sophomore Park is taking on ' an aspect of civilization. The Juniors are working hard and it seems that what has been Hinterland for the last twenty years is finally going to look respectable.

Pussehl and Reich visited their former classmate Hubert Siecker at Burlington April 22nd.

Thus far spring football has caused two casualties. Gilbert was first. Goetz was also hurt and will be laid up for a time.

The Quintaners have been making extensive expeditions into country to get specimens for their Botany work. So far Will­ iam Wordsworth has made the most mileage and has discovered 56

the most flowers. His record is one hundred seventy-five thousand miles and “a host of golden daffodils.”

Albrecht and Sippert shagged to Hustisford and back Satur­ day April 28th. They did nothing of interest there, going only to pass an uninteresting afternoon.

Our worthy tutor Hugo Schnitker had an accident when the faculty played first team May 2nd. He was hit by a pitched ball.

Harry Frank, Ervin Neubert, and Arnold Herrmann helped celebrate the wedding anniversary of Harry’s parents at Milton April 29th.

• • • Banty Siegler celebrated his birthday with a few friends in the dormitory April 28-29. Alfred Sche've’s birthday took place the thirtieth under milder circumstances.

A number of students from Milton College attended “She Stoops to Conquer,” April 27th.

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The favorable weather offered no inducements. However, only one mutiny was discovered. Dorothy Groth and Julia Knispel could not resist the temptation to leave the scene of toil for the more preferable occupation of taking a hike. .Notwithstanding so many serious obstacles, the Girls’ Rooms were in regal order in due time. Lunch was then served. As we Freshman girls prepared it, we shall not take the liberty to vouch­ safe for its delicacy. At least, no serious results were noticed.

Thanks to Arbor Day, everyone now possesses are-enforcements” for the family album, in the form of “snap-shots.” Cameras were a very common article at college on that day.

Now and then, we hear of the accomplishments of former stu­ dents. Gertrude Mueller ex. *28 has been elected a member of the Phi Betta Kappa sorority at the University of Wisconsin. Gerda Reuschel ex. ’31 is teaching at Greenleaf, Wis. Many former students attended the presentation of “She Stoops to Conquer.” Among them were Marie Nommenson and Louise Notbohm, who visited classes the following morning.

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By the way, the Co-eds who were in the cast, are now enjoying a much needed and well-earned rest.

We were very much surprised at the sudden announcement that Esther Kuehn had discontinued college. She accepted a posi­ tion at the office of the Brandt Cashier Co. The sudden climatic changes have given impetus to sickness.

Dot Pine was one of the first unfortunate victims. “It never rains, but what it pours” is applicable to Dot, because her dog was sick at the same time.

Glenna Rasmussen was forced to go to her home because of illness.

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Kind Old Lady: “And what are you going to do when you grow up, my little man?”

Urchin: “Foller in my father’s fingerprints.” 氺氺氺 "There goes one person that agrees with me,” said the canni­ bal, as he finished his meal. 本

TJnverzagt Papa: Du bringst mir aber heute ein schlechtes Zeugnis, ich hoffe, class das Naechste besser sein wird!

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Ach was, wer hat da Zeit sum Laden, wo so viel Wild ist? Da ist man froh wenn man immer nur knallen kann!

A curator of a certain zoological garden was on a holiday. He received a note from his assistant. "The Chimpanzee is sick. He appears to pine for a companion. We don’t know what to do pend­ ing your return.” 氺氺本 “Waiter, this steak is tough.”

“Of course, sir. It’s the piece de resistance.” * * * P： “Biffer has worked himself up, hasn’t lie?”

How do you mean?”

S P: “He used to be a chiropodist, now he’s a dentist.”

Sextaner to Sophomore: “Did you fellows pick out your class colors for the Junior year already?” * Card of Thanks Mrs. John Shirk wishes to thank her friends for their help in the death of her husband, Mrs. John Shirk.

Xenia (Ohio) Gazette In Future Years Prof. Young: Where's Willie?

Mrs. Young: You’ll really have to speak to that boy. been flying back and forth across the Atlantic all afternoon. 木氺本 What did you do last summer ?

Oh, I rode a gondola.

How romantic. Are you a Venetian?

No, a brakeman. + 氺氺 The rain, though raining every day Upon the just and unjust feller, Falls chiefly on the just一because Ihe unjust has the just’s umbrella.

Anon.

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Watertown, Wis., June, 1928

Number 3

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ENGLISH ORATION Martin Franzmann, ’28 THE GENIUS OF SHAKESPEARE There have been attempts to explain the genius of Shake­ speare :hut .'explain’’ is a very ambitious word when applied to something so essentially mysterious as genius. We may as well say that botany has explained the baffling simplicity of a flower.

After all explaining is done, nothing has been explained. We have observed regularities, we have noted recurrent characteristics, we have in some imperfect measure answered the question: how?— Byi； when we ask : why? we are confronted with a book sealed with seven seals. I shall, therefore, attempt no causal explanation of Shakespeare's genius—cither by environment or heredity or astral influences.

Description is perhaps as far as we can go in seeking to catch something as intangible as genius in any mesh of words. And ?veii a description of Shakespeare's genius must be lacunal and imperfect; for though we may describe the towering cathedral of liis intellect as seen from the four points of the compass, the solid imj)act of its significant and tremendous beauty remains a thing to be experienced from actual contact with his works.

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Shakespeare is eminently a dramatic poet: though his epic poems show passages of rare sensuous beauty, and though nmny of his sonnets are as fine as any in the language, it is as a dramatist that he lives in the minds of men, and it is as such that we shall consider him. We can, then, use the Aristotelian requisites of a good drama in forming our judgment of his work and ji) en­ deavoring to obtain a conception of the nature of his genius. These requisites Aristotle lists, in the order of their importance, as the action, characterization, and thought and language.

In the matter of action Shakespeare’s genius shows a singu­ larly interesting aspect in that it is receptive and reconstructive rather than creative. It is doubtful if Shakespeare ever took the trouble to invent a plot: the stories of his plays arc, with 1)ut a few exceptions, traceable to other sources. It is in selection and reconstruction that his genius manifests itself here; the chronicles and history of England and Scotland, the story of Rome in the days of her greatest splendor, the dark intrigues of the Italian Renaissance, the bright romances of the first English story-tellers shine forth in his pages with a new-found beauty, are given new meaning, dignity, color, and life by the lambent light of his genius.

The stories are old, but what a gap between the stories as we find them in Shakespeare and what they were in Shakespeare's sources! In the case of “Julius Caesar^ he has made symmetrical tragedy from the simple, rambling narrative of North’s Plutarch.

In the case of "Romeo and Juliel" he has, in the words of Ten Brink, “created an irristably fascinating, thrilling tragedy out of an interesting, touching romance, a work of art of imperishable worth out of a poem of ephemeral value.” The story of tiie “gentle lady married to the Mooi•” in Ciiithio’s “Hecatoirmiithi” is thrill­ ing and touching enough; yet Cinthio is quite forgotten save by students of “Othello.”

Shakes])eare has often 1)een criticised for not observing the classical unities and for mixing comic and tragic elements in the •’ same play. The first objection scarcely needs to be answered, 'Ye kno'v that the unities of time and places were conventions imposed upon the Greek and Roman drama by the nature of the ancient theater and theatrical performances; conventions which neither Aeschylus, nor Sophocles, nor, most assuredly, that restless spirit Euripides would observe, were they to do their work to-day.

The objection to the mingling of the tragic and the comic is more formidable. It is not enough to say that tragedy and comedy go side by side in life itself, and that drama, as the mirror of life, should in justice both, as they appear, side by side. The sublime and the ridiculous also go hand in hand in life; Romeo probably shaved before the garden scene—yet no one will conclude that it was Shakespeare’s business to show us Romeo in most unromantic 61

lather. Tragedy 1)y its very nature should 1)e specifically tragic in effect, that is, it should evoke pity and fear, thereby effecting a catharsis of the emotions; comedy, too, should have its specific effect. And anything that does not conduce to this predetermined effect is artistically unjustifiable.

But in the case of Shakespeare’s tragedies the objection is in­ valid nevertheless; for in almost every case the comic scenes in the tragedies add to the tragic effect of the whole. Take the familiar instance of the Porter scene in ,,MacbelhDc Quincey has pointed out how this sudden glimpse into the workaday world adds to the total tragic effect, throwing the light of everyday sanity on a world where horrors are bej»;innin^ to seem the natural and aceptable thing. The occasional tragic notes in his romantic comedies arc harder to justify. After Sliylock's bitter “I am content" we need all the glamor of moonlit gardens and sweet music to help us for­ get that heartbroken and defeated Jew. It is the tendency in modern criticism to censure Shakespeare on the point of dramatic conslruction. It is true, Shakespeare risks audacities of constructinn that in weaker hands would have spelled failure—the practicallv unnecessary but supremely bautiful fifth act of the “Merchant of Venice” and the death of Caesar in the third act of “Julius C’acsai.” an* brilliant examples—and some of his plays arc frankly lacking in logic. But when we consider the crudity of the Klizal>cthan stage, the unrefined, semi-medieval tastes of the Elizal)ethan audience, the state of the drama as Shakes­ peare found it, and the general tenor of this full-blooded and vig­ orous age, the wonder is, not that some of his plays are loose and straggling, hut that such jewels of logical construction as Mac“Othello,” “Romeo and Juliet/' such symmetrical organizations of large masses of material as •• I-Ianilet” and “King Lear” came to he at all.

But if Shakespeare is open to criticism on the point of dramatic construction—even those who love him most must admit “occasion­ al infelicities”一it is a bold critic that will venture to assail him in t.he matter of characterization. For in the creation of characters lies Shakespeare's chief glory; his creations stand before us to-day, and soul, clearly and colorfully drawn, supremely proof against the wreckful siege of battering clay—s.” He has built for the English Kings from John to T-Ienrv VIII a “monumentum aere perennius,” and it is in his glowing lines rather than in the somber Images of history that they live and move and have their being.

Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Brutus, Octavian, Antony, Cleopatra— on these dry bones of historical personages Shakespeare breathed, an<^ behold, the breath came into them, they lived and stood up on their feet, an exceeding great army.

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rises before the miners eye! Not a name in all his forty dramas but summons up a clear and complete picture—Hamlet, the medi­ tative prince, whose burden was greater than he could bear; Othel­ lo, whose great-souled simplicity has been traduced by the epithet ot “jealous Moor:’’ Macbeth, torn by agonies of restless ambition : Antonio, the gentle merchant, and Bassanio, true gentlemen and lover; the fat knight John FalstalT, whom the years have not aged 1)ut mellowed that prying and sententious counsellor, Polonius: I ago, than whose cold, intellectual pillacing there is nothing more terrible; Laertes, in whom we see embodied the rashness and in­ trepidity of Elizabethan youth; Jacques, the sorrowful cynic, “wliat the years have made liim:” the noble company of fools from Luce to Antolycus—and we have but begun to name the goodly company, whose names are names to conjure with.

And the women—we must look to the ancients, to Electra, Antigone,Iphigenia, before we find parellels to Ophelia, Desde111011a, Cordelia; to Clytaemnestra and Medea before we find the equals of Lady Macbeth and Lear’s ungrateful daughters. And where shall we find the companions of such lovely, laughing1 ladies as Portia and Rosalind or those merry matrons, Mistress Page and Mistress Ford?

Shakespeare's thought is eminently cosmic in character. There are geniuses, such as Dante, Milton, and in some respects Goethe, whose natural habitat is the immensity of stellar spaces. Shake­ speare sticks close to the world; his interests are in the present, the actual, the experiment«"il一and we are to remember that he wrote with a keen eye for the stage. Even his supernatural creations, such as Queen Mab, Caliban, Puck, and Ariel have a tang of earthy freshness about them. And therein, I think, lies their greatest charm; for though they go girt in glamor and masked moonlight, they never stray into those freakish abnormalties which make most fairies vanilla-flavored creations, “Light bread which the soul loatheth.”

And herewith I must conclude, although I feel that I have afforded scarcely a glimpse into the endless vistas of the enchanted land that is Shakespeare. I have not even touched upon his dic­ . tion,. the rich concreteness and completeness of his vocabulary, the musical expressiveness and variegated harmony of his verse, his skilful mingling of verse and prose, his power of creating1 atmos­ phere, the lyric beauty of his songs, his dramaturgic skill, his im­ aginative skill in the spontaneous creation of metaphor, simile, and epithet—yet it does not matter; Shakespeare is as obviously great as the Rocky Mountains and no more needs our adjectives than the Parthenon needs the encomiums of Baedecker. I can­ not help asking, with Hamlet, “The concernanc y, sir? Why do wrap the gentleman in our more rawer breath"?

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GERMAN ORATION Heinrich Vogel, ’28 DIE DEUTSCHE SPRACHE IN UNSERER MITTE Es ist cine unwiderlegbare Tatsache, class (ler deutschen Sprache sclbst in unscren Kreisen nicht mehr die Achtung un die Pflege zuteil wird, die sie eigentlich verdient. Mit grosser Geschwindikeit versclnvindet sie aus unserem alltaeglichen, und leider auch aus unsercMii kirchlichem Leben. Der Uel^ergang zur englischen Sprache hat vielleicht manchcs fuer sich, aber die Schnelligkeit, mit der cr vor sich geht. ist durchaus nicht wuenschenswert, und es wirkt heunruhigcnd, weiiii num die Vernachlaessigung wahrninimt, die die cleutsclic Sprache heute unter uns erleidet.

Die Gruende fuer (liese Verkennung des Deutschtums und (ler dciitschcn Sprache sincl verschieclener Art. Der amerikanische Gcist untersebaetzt alles Auslaendische. Was vom Atisland stamnit, moegc es noch so gut sein, wire! dem Einheimischen stets unterg^eordnet. Diese W'ahrheit bezieht sich nicht nur auf die Produkte anderer Laender, sondern auch auf ihre sonstigen Errungenschaften, ja, sogar auf ihre Sprache. , Wer Deutsch als •seine Umgangssprache benutzt, kann unmoeglich ein humlert-prozentiger Hucrgcr des Landes scin : er hat ja wahrscheinlich Sympathien odcr Heziehungcn zu einem anderen Lande! Waehrend <les Weltkriges gait es sogar an manchen Orten fuer ein Verbrechcii, auf der Strasse (leuUscli /.u spreclien. Der Unterricht in der fleutschcn Sprache wurdc uns in manchen Staaten in unseren Schulcn untersagt. Kurz, wir verficlen fast in den Duenkel der alten Griechen, (Tie alles Nichtgriechische fuer barbarisch ansahen.

Ein weiterer Grund fuer diese Lage ist der Mangel an Stolz unter uns Deutschamerikanern. Man glaubt allgemein.,class (ler Deutsche ein UelDermass an Stolz besitzt. Das mag sein, aber wenn es sich um seine Sprache handelt, zeigt er ihn nicht. Wenn Vorfahren in der • ein Amerikaner nachweisen kann, class seine •‘Mayflower’’ herueberkamen, ruehmt er sich (lessen und ist stolz auf seine angelsaechsische Al)kunft. Wie oft hoert man a1)er elnen Buerger dieses Landes sich (lessen ruehnien, class er deutscher Ahstammung ist? Wie er sich der deutschen Abkunft schaemt, so verkennt (ler Deutschamerikaner auch meistens seine Muttersprache 9er vernuenftigste Eimvand, den man wohl machen koennte, Ist vielleicht der, class Englisch hier (lie offizielle Landesprache ist. und deshalb eine Kenntnis der englischen Sprache von hoechster Wichtig-keit ist. Das ist allerdings wahr. Die deutsche Spra­ che soli aber auch nicht die offizielle Landessprache werden. Doch is$ dies kein Argument gegen die Pflege der deutschen Sprache. 、'er zwei Sprachen beherrscht, ist deni inimer voraus, der nur eme—und die manchmal recht fehlerhaft spricht.

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Der Jingoismus, der alles Auslaenclische missachtet, ist an sich selbst verwerflich. Der zeigt eine Heschraenkthcit, der ihn bei jecler Gelegenheit an den Tag legl. Dazu ist auch die Zeit vorbei, wo einem dafuer, class man deutsch sprach, (las Mans auf einer Seite gelb angestrichen und auf cler anderen Seite mit Schmulz beworfen wurde. Es ist bald hoechste Zeit, class wir uns von (lieser fanatischen Kriegshysterie erholen und wieder zur Vermin ft zurueckkehren.

Aus einer gruendlichen Kenntnis der deutschen Sprache erfolgt auch kein Nachteil fuer den, cler sic beherrsclit. Im Gegen1-Iause teil, ein grosser Gewinn ist es, wenn einer darinnen gut ist. Besonders fuer uns angehende Pastoren hut (lie deutsche Sprache grossen Wert, denn es wird noch jahrelang auch in unseren Kreisen die Anforderung an uns gestellt werden, in der (leutschen Sprache zu predigen, und schon deswegen ist eine Beherrschung dieser Sprache notwendig. Ferner sincl Luthers Werke so'vie die meisten anderen Schriften unserer Kirche in der deutschen Sprache verfasst, die alle bei der Ue1)erstezung- in das Englische etwas an ihrer Klarheit, Kraft. Reiz und Lieblichkeit cinlmessen.

Wie imvollkommen selbst die beste Uebersetzung ist, kann irgendeiner fuer sich selber erfahren, wenn er nur Luthers Schriften mit einer englischen Uebersetzung, oder Shakespeares Dramen mit einer deutschen Uebersetzung vergleicht. Eine Uebersetzung ist und bleibt eine Nachahmung und muss sich deshalb mil deni Fehler c!er Unvollkommenheit zufrieden gel)en. Dazu sincl Luthers herrliclie Bibeluebersetzung, seine Katechismen und die unzaehligen deutschen Kirchenliecler und Choraele ein unersetzlicher Schatz.

Unsere lulherischen Choraele sind ein Kleinod, das keine andere Kirche in irgendeiner Sprache besitzt, um das wir von anderen beneidet werden, ja, das waehrend des dreissigjaehrig'en Krieges sozusagen die lutherische Kirche geradezu vorm Untergange bewahrte.

Si.nd diese herrlichen Choraele es nicht an sich schon wert, class wir derentwegen an unserer lieben deutschen Sprache feslhalten ? .I-in jeder, der sein Lel.)en clem Studium widmet, oder mit Vor$l)e gute Literatur liest, wird gewiss um viel Angenehmes und Wert voiles betrogen, wenn er Schriftsteller wie Goethe, Schiller, 65

Lessing unci' hundert anclere nicht im Original lesen kann. In (ler WeltUteratur nimmt die deutsche Sprache eine der hervorragendsten Stellen ein, unci wcr sie nicht beherrscht, muss sich manche angenehme Stunde versagen, vveil er sich an der erquickenden Quelle der deutschen Literatur nicht laben kann. ~ Und eine lieblichere, klangvollere, gefuehlvollere Sprache gibt es. glaube ich, auf Gottes ganzem Erdboden nicht/ Es gibt gewisse Stimmungen und Gefuehle, clenen der Mensch in den meisten Sprachen nicht leicht woertliclien Ausdruck verleihen kann, (lie sich schwer in Worte kleiden lassen, (loch gelingt dies am allerbesten in der deutschen Sprache. Man sehc nui. die deutsche Poesie, 1)esonders die schlichten, cinfachcn und (loch so praechtigen Volkslieder an. Was fucr Fuellc von innigem, geniuetlichem Leben ist nicht darinnen enthaltcn! Der Deutsche ist ein Gefuehlsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;oder Gemuetsmcnsch, und seine Sprache ist d:e Ausserung seines Charakters. So unvergesslich der Charakter (les Deutschen ist, so unvergesslich ist auch seine Sprache. Man hat gesagt, dass (lie deutsche Sprache selbst als tote Sprache erhalten blieben wuerde, wenn einst niemancl sie mchr sprechen wuerde. Wenn sie das verdient. o, wieviel melir soil ten wir sie nicht miter uns liegen und pflegen und unsern Teil da/ii l^eitragen, dies teure Kleinod zu erhalten!!

Die Mil tel dazu sind st.hr einl'ach. Die allerbesten Resultate werden daclurch erziclt, dass man in fruehester Kindheit l)eginnt, wo die Lernbegierde ini Kuulc lioch gross ist. Zu dieser Zeit lernt ein Kind zwei Sprachen ebenso leicht als eine. Man braucht -sich j?ar nicht fuerchten, diiss cs zu schwer sein wird fuer die Kleinen.

Wie oft hoert man aber nicht solche unsinnigen Befuerchtungen!

Docli lernen in der Sclnvciz die meisten Kinder drei Sprachen nebeneinander, ohne irs^cndwelche geistige oder leibliche Schaedigung zu erleidcn. Dieser Furcht kann man sich ruhig ueberheben.

Ferner muss dann die Ahneigung' gegen das Lernen der deut­ schen Sprache ueberwunden werden, und auch in unsern lutherisclien Gemeincleschulen dart" (ler deutsche Unterricht nicht zu sehr vernachlaessigt werden, wie das leider vielfach geschieht.

Dass es geschieht ist ein Fchler, clem eifrig entgegengearbeitet werden muss.

Auch auf unseren hocheren Anstaiten muss das Studium (les Deutschen eifriger betrieben werden. Die Schueler, die die Sache gleichgueltig 1)etrachten, muessen angefeuert und fuer die deutsche Sprache begeistert werden. Es muss in ihnen Lust und Liebe dafuer erweekt werden. Und man bilde sich ja nicht ein, dass es in. fuenf bis zelin Jahren hei uns mit dem Deutschen ganz aus sein wird. Das wird, wenn cs ueberliaupt geschieht, lioch mindestens fuenfundzwanzig Tahre dauern, und wollte Gott, cliese herriiche Sprache 1)liel)e uns noch vielemal fuenfundzwanzig Jahre erhalten!

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Statt die deutsche Spraclie als ein notwendiges Uebel zu betrachten, sollten wir sie kennen und schaetzen lernen als das, was sie wirklich ist, eine der schoensten, gefuehlvollsten, Klangvollsten und wissenswertesten Sprachen der Welt.

LATIN ORATION Raymond Zimmennann, ’28

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DE DIVERSIS INIUSTITIAE GENERIBUS ET CAUSIS. Unter den Schriflstellern, die nicht nur (lurch ihre geistige Vorzueglichkeit, (lurch ihre reichen Kenntnisse unci (lurch (lie Mannigfaltigkeit ihrer Schriften eine hervorragende Stellung einnehmen, sondern aucli (lurch ihre Achtung 1)ei (ler Menschheit, (lurch die Wechselfaelle ihres Schicksals und schliesslich auch (lurch ihren aeusserst traurigen Tod, 1)ci den Zcitgenossen wie auch 1)ei der Nachwelt beruehmt wurclen, nimml Markus Tullius Cicero gewisslich nicht die letzte Stelle ein. Cicero hat unter andercm als Philosoph sich in seinem Buche de Officiis mit den sittlichen Fragen beschaeftigt. Wenn man diese nun liesst, so kommt einem oft der Gedanke: Wie konnte dieser Heicle eine in Vielen Faellen so tiefe Auffassung von den verschiedenen Pflichten der Menschen einander gegenueber haben. In clem erwaehnlen Buche hat er auch die Ungerechtigkeit besprochen, unci seine Gedanken darueber wollen wir hier wiedergeben.

Die Menschheit, sagt er, wird leichl zu der Meinung verleitet, class es ueberfluessig ist, die verschiedenen Arten der Ungerechtig­ keit und deren Ursachen zu erforshen. Denn einem jeclem Menschen ist eine kleine Stimme eingeben, die ihn abniahnt, 'venii er et'vas tun will, das gegen die Gerechtigkeit versloesst, und ihn sch'ver anklagt, wenn er gesuendigt hat. Dennpch ist es vorteilhaft festzustellen, was die verschiedenen Arten des Unrechts und ihre Ur­ sachen sincl.

• Es gibt z\vei Gattungen der Ungerechtigkeit. Erstens, die Ungerrechtigkeit derer, die das Unrecht ljegehen; und zweitens, die Ungerrechtigkeit derer, die das Unrecht nicht verhindern, obwohl sie es koennten. Daraus sieht man, class nicht nur die, die gegen irgendjemand oder gegen sein Hal) und Gut sich vergreifen, sondern class auch die ein Unrecht begehen, die es zulassen, class andere ein Unrecht erleiden, welches sie, wenn sie ihre Kraefte gebrauchen wollten, verhindern koennten. Und diese letzte Art muss • meisten betont werden. Denn die Zahl derer ist gross, welclie. 'veil sie von der ersten Art der Ungerechtigkeit frei sind, in die Zweite fallen ini Glauben, class es nicht ihre Sache ist, fuer das Wohl anderer zu sorgen.

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Die erste mid die am haeufigsten vorkommende Ursache der Ungerechtigkeit ist die Habsucht. Demi obwohl man jede Ver­ meil rung des Vermoegens, die auf gerechte Weise geschieht, loben kann, muss man es auf strengste tadeln, wenn der Trieb sein Vermoegen zu vermehren das ueberschreitet, und er in haessliche, unersaettliche Habgier uebergeht. Dicse ist des Menschen schon an und fuei. sich unwuerdig, und dazu laesst sie viele Ungerechtigkcitcn hervorspriesen. Denn da die, welche Gold und Schaetze unmaessig und zuegellos nachjagen, alles, was sie tun, auf ihren eignem Ge'vimi heziehen, stelien von keiner Handlung ab, so lange crlangen, was sie 'vollen. Sie kuemmern sich garnicht um das Wahl anderer, welches an sich schon unrecht ist, und scheuen sich nicht menschliclies und goettliches Recht zu verdrehen, wenn sic glauhen, sic muessen etwas liaben. Die Wahrhaftigkeit, ohne die der gesellschaitliclie Verkehr der Menschen unter einander nicht existieren koennte, die Zuverlaessigkeit in Worten und Abmachungcn, auf denon allcr Handel beriiht，schliesslich alles, was von ehrlichen und sittlich guten Menschen beobachtet wird, haben kein Gcwicht bei jenc, wenn sie nicht zu der Vermehrung ihres Wohlstandcs beitragen. Dagegen liegen jenen Luege, Treulosigkeit，Bet rug und was auch iminer boese ist. auf der Hand. 'venn (lie Alacht nocli Zll dieser Begierde hinzukommt, enthalten sie sich nicht einmal von Verbrechen und Schandtaten. So gebrauchten die roemischen Praetoren in den Provinzen Todesstrafe und Aechtung gegen die, (lurch deren Schaetze sie ihren Reichtum vermehren wollten. Dies ist aher clas besondere Mekmal der Habsucht, class sie niemals genug hat, und beim Herannahen des Alters nicht kleiner wird. Fast alle anderen Begierden werden endlich einmal gestillt und werden ini Griesenalter unterdruekt, aber die Habsucht waechst von Tag zu Tag und wurzelt sich ein, und je groesser sie wird, desto mehr Unrecht bringt sie hervor.

Der Begierde nach Gold sehr aehnlich and nahe ist die Begierde nach Herrschaft, Ruhm und Eh re. Audi edelgesinnte Menschen*sind oft so um cliese besorgt, dass sie die Gerechtigkeit vergessen. Denn der Geist der Menschen, der begierig nach Ehre und Rulim ist, ist unersaettlich. Kaum haben solche Menschen (las，was sie 'vollen, crreicht, so strecken sie gierig, wie einer, der (lurch Durst clahinschmachtet, die Haende schon nach anderen und groessei^en aus unci suchen es durch Planen, durch Leutseligkeit, clurcli Bitten ocler durch Grausamkcit zu erlangen. Durch diese Swcht nach Macht unci Ehren kann es leicht geschehen, dass oft viele Menschen clas groesste Unrecht erleiden. Deswegen werden oft Kriege gefuehrt sowo hi gegen auswaertige Feinde als auch gegen die einge Mitbuerger, und (lurch diese Kriege entstehen alles 68

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Uebel und jede Ungerchtigkit, die man sich Diesc Tatsache beweisst am klarstcn die Verwegenheit Napoleons I，cler wegcn seiner unbegrenzten Gier nach Herrschaft und Ansehcn alles mcnschliche tiiul goettliche Recht vcrmengte und verdrehte, und sehr vielen Voelkern liuropas Unrecht und unglaub-! liches Unheil zugefuegt hat.

Es ist auch nicht selten. class Ungerechtigkeit aus Furcht cr'vaechst. Denn der, cler ini Sinne hat, jemanden zu schaden, befuerchtet oft, class er, wenn er es nicht tut, selber Schaden lciden wird. Dies trifft haeufig bei denen 7A\, die entwecler (lurch ungerechte Raenke zur Herrschaft glangl sind, oder die sich ungerechterweise grosse Schaetze aufgehaeuft haben. l)a sie nun fortwaehrend von einem boesen Gewissen geplagl werden unci viele Feinde haben, argwohnen sie Hass und Neid in den Worten und Tateii anderer und legen alles Gute als Boeses aus. Daher gcschieht es, class sie, (lurch eine grundlose Furcht betoert, nieinen, Gefahren bedrohen sie auf alien Seiten. Dabei versuchen sie neuen Ungerechtigkeiten zu entfliehen, und oft bestrafen sie sehr g：rausam die aller unscliuldigsten Menschcn.

Aber die aller schaendlichste .\rt der Ungerechtigkeit ist die Bosheit und der Menschenhass. Manche schaden andere um keiner ancleren Ursache willen, als class sie jeden mnschHchen Verkehr hassen und guten Menschcn Ue1)les wuenchen, wcil sie in Licbe und angenehmen Verhaeltnissen zu leben scheinen. Solche Menschen haben etwas in ihrem Gemuet, das nur schaendlich und verwcrflich ist, und das man niehr fuercliten muss als die turchtbarsten Drachen, (lie (lie Mythologic erwaehnt.

Und (lamit ist, glaube ich, genug ueber das eigenliche Begehen der Ungerechtigkeit gesagt wonlcn. J etzt werden w\v zu clenen uebergehen, die es unterlassen die, die Unrecht erleiden, zu verteidigen. Von (lieser Art gibt es l)ei weiten niehr als von cler ersteren. Die einen naemlich wolleii nicht Feindschaften, Muchcn oder Kosten ouf sich nehnien, Es gibt 'volil manche, die uns fruendlich sind unci treue Fruencle sein wollen, solange wir in Glueck uyid Sicherlie.it leben，aher wenn sie sehen, class wir ein schweres Unrecht erleiden, lassen sie uns ini Stiche. Sie wollen naemlich lieber unser Glueck geniessen als uns unterstuetzen, und daneben fuerchten sie. dass sie dadurch die Feindschaft anderer sich 7.Uziehen werden und ihr eignes Vcrmoegen verlieren koennen. So s?gt auch der einsichtsvolle Vergil: ''Solange du gluecklich bist. sinc| deiner t reunde viel; wenn die Zeiten aber truebe sincl, bist du alleine..’ Andere werden zu diesem Vergehen (lurch Traegheit, Faulheit und Nachlaessigkeit verleitet.

Das sind die verschiedenen Arten und die Ursachen, aus welchen die Ungerechtigkeit besonders hervorgeht. Aber bei jedem Fall muss man darauf Ruecksicht nehmen, oh es ein geplantes.

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Ein jccler kann lcicht sehen, class man clieser letzten Art der Un­ gcrechtij^keit Verzeihung, schenkcn muss, und class man sic liicht mit dcrsclbcn Strenge wie die geplante Ungerechtigkeit verurleilen darf.

Das ist in wenigen Worten, was Cicero ueber die Arten und Ursachen der Ungercchtigkcit sagt.

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GERHARD REDLIN “Red” Appleton, Wisconsin President of the Class President of Student Body Black and Red Staff Band—Male Chorus Football A Baseball Manager 4 Basketball Manager 3 Philomathian "He cloth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus.”

MARTIN FRANZMANN “Mart?

Stillwater, Minnesota Vice-President of the Class Editor-in-chief of the Black and Red President of the Philo­ mathian The world is comedy to those who think.”

ERVIN SCHARF “Erv” Fond du Lac, Wisconsin Secretary-Treasurer of the Class President of the Mixed Chorus Student Librarian President of the Phi GamRho Male Chorus “Grand without pomp, and rich without vain show.”

WALTER AMACHER ‘:Pccly” Stctsonville, Wisconsin Black and Red Staff Band Phi Gamma Rho “The applause of listen­ ing senates to command.'* HEINZ BLUHM “Hein/， Oshkosh, Wisconsin Phi Gamma Rho “Solitude is sometimes best company.”

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HILMF.R ECKERT “Spike” Riga, Michigan Basketball 4 Tennis 3 Athletic Board Philomath ian , .‘Pleasure and action mako the hours seem short.”

LKNORF. GE'VECKE Watertown, Wisconsin President of the Co-eds Philoniathian “I have that within which passeth show.”

FREDKRIC GILBKRT “Swift” Milwaukee, Wisconsin Football 2, 3, 4 Male Chorus Mixed Chorus Orchestra Phi Gamma Rho “Not being the worst stands in some rank of praise."

ROLAND IIOKXl«：CKK “Heine” Saginaw, Michigan President of the Athletic Board Baseball 2, 3, 4, Capt. 4 Tennis 3 Football Manager 4 Phi Ganuna Rho ’:I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.”

KMIL KASISCHKE “Mush” Tawas City, Michigan Baseball 3, 4 Phi Gamma Rho ’’The countless gold of a merry heart."

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HERBERT LEMKE ■‘Sam，， Grcenlcaf, Wisconsin Male Chorus Mixed Chorus Phi Gamma Rho "How poor are they that have no patience.”

ALFRED MAASKE ..“Al” Bristol, Wisconsin President of the Male Chorus Football 2, 3, 4 "In form of Slcntor of the brazen voice Whose shout is as the shout of fifty men.”

HERMAN MUTTERER .••Ham” Buffalo, Minnesota Football 4 'Things seriously pur­ sued afford true enjoyment.”

FRITZ REUTER “Fritz” New Ulm, Minnesota Football 3, 4 "Devout, yet cheerful: active yet resigned.’’

GKORGKROSENHAUKR “Rosy” Burlington, Wisconsin Captain of the Military Company 3 Basketball 3, 4. Capt. 3 Tennis 3 Athletic Board Football 2 Philomathian "Happy men shall have many friends.”

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LEE SABROWSKY ,,CaesarM Crandon. Wisconsin President o! the Vesuvius Club Vice-President of the Phil­ omath i an •'Wit for a week, laugntcr for a month, and a good jest forever."

HEINRICH VOGKL “Spatz”

Jefferson, Wisconsin Associate Editor of the Black and Red Male Chorus Mixed Chorus Phi Gamma Rlio "He is like a book in breeches/' ADF.LP.KRT VOC.KS “Bert" Watertown, W i scons in Phi Gamma Rho '•What a mighty spirit in a narrow frame.”

ARNO VOIGT *'Arny" Watertown, Wisconsin llasoball 3, -4 Hii Ganinia Rho "Nee temcro, nee timide.'

SIKGHARO WKSTICXDORF Saginaw, Michigan Football 4 Manager of the Basketball Team 4 Male Chorus Mixed Chorus Phi Gamma Rho ••Silence is deep as Speech is shallow as

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ALBERT WINTER “Puddles” West Bloomfield, Wis. Phi Gamma Rho "I think, therefore I exist.”

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MARTIN ZILZ “Marty” Wausau, Wisconsin Basketball 3, 4. Capt. 4 Baseball 1, 2, 3, 4. Capt. 3 "Die mihi, si fias tu leo, qualis cris.”

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ERWIN WAGNER "Erv” Black Creek, Wisconsin Philomathian "Let fools tlic studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being 'vise.”

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COMMERCIAL AUCK DIERKER Watertown, Wisconsin Mixed Chorus Phi Gamma Rho “I have a heart with room for every joy.'

LUCY LKHMANN Watertown, Wisconsin Mixed Chorus Philomathian "Her very frowns arc fairer far Than smiles of other maidens are.”

BERNHARD LKMKIC Watertown, Wisconsin Band "Thy modestv’s a candle to thy

CLASS OFFICERS Gerhard Recllin, President Martin Franzmann, Vicepresident Erwin Scliarf, SecretaryTreasurer CLASS MOTTO Menonien en ois Emathomen CLASS FLOWER Crimson Rose CLASS COLORS Maroon and White

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NEUERUNGSSUECHTIG ?

Deni Abiturienten einer hoeheren Lehranstalt, die er mit Erfolg besuclit hat, wird das Scheiden gewoehnlich schwer, hat er doch in ihr den letzten Teil seiner bildsamen Jahre verbracht. Der Geist, der in seiner Penne weht, hat ihm irgendwie seinen Stempel aufgepraegt, den er sein gauzes Leben hindurch tragen wird. Deswegen darf geradc der abgehende Oberprimaner, der eiii angehender Inhaber des Reifezeugnisses bald als denkender Mensch gilt, einmal frisch von der I^eber weg reden, ohne, falls er an den bestehenden Verhaeltnissen zu ungestuem ruetteln sollte, gleich bei dem strengen Lehrerkollegium in Ungnade zu verfallen und vors “Konzil” zitiert zu 'verden.

Erhaltet N. W. C. als humanistisches Gymnasium. Der Herr Direktor stellte in seiner letztjaehrigen Abiturientenentlassungsrede fest, dass wir als christliche Schule in religioes-sittlicher Hinsicht gegen den Strom schwimmen. Auch das humanistische Gym­ nasium ist dem grob materialistischen Zeitgeist ein Dorn im Auge.

Man glaubt im allgemeinen nicht mehr an den Ewigkeitsgehalt der Antike. Nun will jede hoehere Schule in die Gegenwartskultur einfuehren. Die oberrealschule—ich habe deutsche Verhaeltliisse im Auge; den ungluecklichen Einfall, unreife Schueler ihre 77

Faechcr selhst waehlen zu lanen, uebergehe icli als im besten Falle sclir fragliche Methode—die Oberrealschule, wie gesagt, versucht dies Ziel (lurch Betonung der malliematisch-naturwissenschaftlichcn Faeclier zu erreichen, das Realgymnasium durch seinen ausgedehnten neusprachlichen Unterricht und (las alte Gymnasium (lurch (lie liebevollc Pflege der 1>eiden klassischen Sprachen. Vielleicht solltc ich sagen, der klassischen Sprachen und Kulturen, denn im altsprachlichen Unterricht ist in Sekunda unci Prima grieschische und rocmische Kulturgescliichte in den Vordergrund zu ruecken.

Hcstaende ••Lateiii” und ..Griescliiscli” nur im Einpauken von Vokabeln imcl grammatischen Regeln, wie man noch immer in weitern Kreisen irrtuemlich annimnit, so waeren die erhitterten Angriffe auf (las alte Gymnasium z. T. gerechtfertigt. Macht es aber seme Zocglinge mit clem Geist der An tike, wozu natuerlich die Ueber windung der sprachlichen Schwerigkeiten (lie unerlaessliche Vorhedingung ist, 'veil in der Sprache das tiefste Erleben eines Volkes zuni Ausdruck kommt, aucli nur einige rmassen bekannt, so bewahrt es sie vor der Gefahr, nur Ki nder i]hrer Zeit so werden, einer unheiniliclien Gefahr, der die rein praktisch erzogene Jugend fast ausnahnislos wellrlos ausgeliefert ist. In Hinblick auf die Antike lernen wir Men sell en einer Kpoclie, (lie Spengler als seelenlose Zivilisation hczeichnct, eine Hczeichnung, die, aus dem Nachkriegskulturpessimismus geljoren, allerclings mit dem bekannten Koernclieii Salz aufzunehnien ist, recht bescheiden sein trotz aller erst.iunlichen technischen Leistung.cn des Zeitalters cler Maschine.

An Einsiclu ist unserc Zeit zwar weiter als jede andere, aber an Schoepfcrkraft steht sie zurueck hinter mancher Dunkelheit von eheclni, die Kultur war ini Gegensatz zur fin-cle-siecle-Zivilisation.

Noch einmal: Erhaltet uns N. W. C. als humanistisches Gym­ nasium!.

Damit glaube ich den Wunsch mancher ehemaligen Schueler ausgesprochen zu haben. Sollte ich irren, was durchaus im Bereiche der Moeglichkeit liegt, stehe ich doch, historisch geredet, den Ereigiiissen noch zu nahe, so bitte ich ehemalige Schueler, die anderer Meinung; sincl, sich an dieser Stelle zu auessern. Der Schriftleiter unserer Schulnachrichten wird Zuschriften, die spaerlich genug aus der ansehnlichen Zahl ehemaliger Schueler dieser Anstalt fliessen, gern veroeffentlichen, gilt es (loch das Wohl und Wehe unseres B. N. W. C. EXCESS MODESTY Categorically students can be divided into two classes: those who are never satisfied with their own efforts and accomplishments and those priggish, self-opinionated beings who are greatly im-

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It is these unassuming students that will finally succeed. Though we are at first inclined to believe that their attitude is the alto­ gether proper one and that no harm can come of it, their concep­ tion involves numerous clangers. Some of the more intent are apt to become too pessimistic, too disatisfied with their progress, and to look upon their entire college career as a complete failure. The writer has heard several of the graduating class remark, **Our course has been a vain attempt; we have accomplished nothing/* This is very true of some; but the student who has taken his work lightly and has not applied himself properly would hardly come to this realization, or if he did, he would not openly confess it. The student who is discontented with what he has accomplished although he has been faithful and conscientious would much more readily arrive at such a conclusion. Very few of us, perhaps none, will do a really great thing in our life. Why should we then be­ come despondent if we have failed to do so at school ? We must be content if we have gained a general education and a fundamental knowledge, to which we can add our personal experience and ob­ servations in life. After all, it is faithfulness in the small things to which we must give heed.

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Surely not our parents', for in many cases they taught us to talk German, before we learned anything about English. Besides, it often happens that we answer our parents’ questions in English, although they ask them in German. Furthermore, how often don’t we hear this confession from some of us I could talk German better five years ago than I can now”？ It can hardly be our par­ ents' fault that we know so little about the language. Can we blame our teachers or their methods? Hardly, for many of ns have had success with the same teachers and methods. Whom, then, can we blame but ourselves ? The fault must lie in us. We 79

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Some say that it’s useless to study German, since the language will soon die out in our country. That surely is a lame excuse. The German language will be studied at American schools and will be spoken in this country as long as we live. Finally, we have no excuse for our sad state concerning this language. When we con­ sider the fact that we are horn German-Americans, we ought to feel ashamed of the poor accomplishments in our own language.

Daily use of the German in our conversation with fellow students would help us very much toward a better command of the language.

We shall never forget the English, but we can easily forget the little German we know.

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Farewell, I must now leave you; The grief this day doth give you Soon others, too, shall bear.

Be yc to God commended; In heaven all woe is ended, And we shall meet in glory there.’

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Wisconsin, June 26, 1912. She attended the public school of that place, and was confirmed two years ago as a meml)er of the last class confirmed by the now retired Rev. Schauer. After having spent two years at the Reeseville High School, she entered Northwestern College last September as a member of the Ouarta Class, On the twenty-first of February she went home in order to cure a bad cold, as her illness was considered at that time. March seventh she was put on her death-bed from which she was taken May eigh­ teenth. Three days later, exactly three months after she had left college, she was lowered into her grave at Reeseville. At the fun­ eral the Rev. Meinecke, her pastor ,delivered the German sermon, and Prof. Westerhaus, her history professor, the English sermon.

The Mixed Chorus, of which she was a member, sang immediately after the German sermon, and Margaret Mutchler offered the solo, ‘‘Face to Face.” Among the pallbearers were four members of her class: Roman Biesmann, Waldemar Dobratz, Egbert Eggert, and Herbert Kuhlow. Among the Mower girls were Anita Geweke.

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In the course of tlic last weeks death has again contracted our alumni circle 1 taking1 from us several older graduates: Adolphus T. Sieker/91, a lawyer in New York City; Rev. C. H. Sieker, f90, of Hurlin^ton : and Rev. E. Hoyer. 73, of Beaver Dam. —Oil May 6 Rev. A. F. Siegler also passed away, who belonnged Molto that first class of three, which was instructed by Prof. E.… dehnke in the Gardner house on Fourth Street. This instruction, lo say the most, represented Northwestern in its embryonic stage, for it still bore the nature of a combined Seminary and College Course.

—()ii the evening of May 25 Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Ott，’85, gen­ erously entertained the Senior Class with a banquet at their home.

In spite of the unusually large size of the Class of *28 Dr. Ott would not forbear being host to them as he has been to the graduatiiig classes for many years. __•—Harry Roschen .ex •27, Chicago was married to Miss Viola Koch of Forest Park, 111. on June 16.

—Victor Tierfelder, ex ?23, of Milwaukee was recently engaged to Miss Irma Schulz.

—Rev. Pankow, ex '07, Rev. Gerald Hoenecke,，18, and Rev. u alter Zank, '16, appeared at Northwestern on Decoration Day. 丄 hey witnessed our baseball nine play the Watertown City team.

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—Since we were able to gather but a few items about the institu­ tion even under the common-place subjects of births, marriages, and deaths, we were especially grateful to the Nebraska Alumnus, who also remembered the Alumni column when making his remittance to the Business Manager. .

—A number of Nebraska Alumni seem to have been stirred out of their temporary celibacy. It may after all have been only a transient or probably critical indifference. Shortly after Christmas Rev. E. Friebe, *19, of Broken Bow, Nebr. was united in holy wedlock with Miss Edna Sauer of Merna. On April 11 Rev. Hen­ ry Lehmann, ’23，was married to Miss Martha Horn in the Grace Lutheran Church, Burke, S. D. After the ceremony nearly a hundred guests, many of whom were Northwestern Alumni, gath­ ered at the Horn country mansion.

—In January Rev. Walter Siffring, ex ’24，was engaged to Miss Edna Rauscher of A msworth, Nebr.

—Rev. Th. Bauer, ex ’16，of Mission, S. D. has accepted a call to Alaska, S. D. —We announce the birth of a little girl to Rev. and Mrs. P. Janke, ex ’19，Fort Atkinson, May 9, and to Rev. and Mrs. P. G. Naumann, ’17，Bay City, on May 31; of a little hoy to Rev. and Mrs. John Henning, *18, on May 10, and to Rev. and Mrs. H. Kuckliahn, ’22, 氺

Alumni Meeting Watertown, Wisconsin, June 15th, 1927 The meeting was called to order by the Reverend H. Knuth.

Since both the president and the secretary of the society were ab­ sent, the Reverend August C. Bendler was elected temporary chair­ man and the Rev. E. B. Schlueter was requested to act as secretary.

— The minutes of the previous meeting were approved as read.

58 members responded to roll call. In this connection it was re­ solved that henceforth the names of all alumnae be entered in the membership list as to their maiden name and also as to their pres­ ent name.

The class of 1927 was admitted into membership, as were also tli.e following: Miss Josephine Sproesser, Miss Irene Bolte, Miss Nina Pautsch, Mrs. John Henning, Mrs. W. E. Gutzke, the Rev­ erend Palmer Janke, the Reverend A. F. Halboth, the Reverend Theodore Gieschen, the Reverend Robert Wolff, and the Reverend F. Ehlert. The Reverend Michael Pankow was elected to an hon­ orary membership.

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The following report was submitted by the treasurer, Dr. J. H. Ott,:

Receipts 1926—27 Cash on hand June 11, 1926

.$195.00 ■ 49.08 $244.08

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Expenses $ 4.91 ■ 239.17

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$244.08

Total Condition of Fund

.$2601.83 . 206.70 . 239.17 .192.00

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This report, after having been audited by the Rev. H. Knuth and Prof. H. Kowalke, was adopted as read. The following recom­ mendation submitted hy the Reverend H. Knuth and Prof E. Kowalke was also adopted: “Your committee submits the following re­ commendation to the Alumni Society, namely, that the treasurer report at every meeting the status of the investments, first, the pur­ chase price, second, the rate of interest, and third, the present valA gift of $150.00 for the Alumni Building Fund was announced l)y the Class of 1917 in commemoration of its tenth anniversary.

A member of the society having sent $25.00 to the treasurer in lieu of annual dues, the society established the rule, that hence­ forth life meml)ership shall be granted upon payment of $25.00.

Dr. Kosanke having removed to Fond du Lac, Mr. Oscar Hoyer was elected to fill the vacancy on a committee appointed June 11, 1926.、The other members of this committee are: President E. KowaTke, Dr. J. H. Ott, and the Reverend F. Stern. The duty of this committee shall be ''to study the needs of our college and to ascertain the approximate cost of the building to be recommended.”

•1 he committee was requested to report its findings at the next meet­ ing of the society in June, 1928.

All business having been transacted, adjournment followed.

E. Benj. Schlueter, Sec. pro tempore.

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ON THE TIMES Pages have been written on this point, accordingly it will be needless to say that this will be but a worthless dash added to those thousands of pages, worthy and otherwise. Isaiah, Jeremi­ ah, Socrates, Zeno, Epictetus, the prophets, the moralists and others all down the line of years and centuries have bemoaned their times and not without just cause. We conclude that if such minds and spirits with all their knowledge had the right to lament, we have it too and more, even though it lie over our dusty brainpans.

Thus it was, for nearly a week and a half ago all of us began to think, and not a few of us to worry about the three hour examinations. Many lamented their lot and sat in mental sackcloth and ashes for not having studied harder. And even that type which went prating that it wasn’t being worried a bit by them breathed a deep sigh when all was over and his head, rid of its load, felt like a rainbarrel on the Sahara. For a time the halls had looked for a change as if they really housed people thirsty for knowledge, Examinations began on the fifth of June and closed on Monday the eleventh.

Tuesday both dormitories creaked, rumbled, and shook. Trunks creaked and banged, hammers pounded, dust flew in clouds from pennants, curtains, pillows, and blankets. But we can say with some certainty that most of the packing was finished by Tuesday night.

And now we are all ready to forget all we learned during the year,Hebrew roots and physics, mathematics and history and trail at mother’s apron strings and nearer father's bill-fold or checkbook, or earn a little of our own money for about two months.

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THE CONCERT Again in the cycle of years the musical organizations have prepared a program to be given in the auditorium on Tuesday night, June 12. Beginning with the yearly influx of new and raw material tliese groups have under active and earnest student and faculty leadership again reached comparatively high standards, which wc hope the concert, the program of which is given below, will disclose: Mignonette ..............

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Our National Honor Orclicstra

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Scherzo in C Sharp minor ..............

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COMMENCEMENT Commencement exercises for the graduating class of 1928 will I^e held on the thirteenth .at ten o'clock A. M. in the auditorium. _ _____ ^_ This will mark the fifty-seventh annual graduation. Twenty-five students will be graduated from the college of liberal arts, three from the business college and eight from the high-school depart­ ment. Mr. M. Franzmann will give the English oration, “The Genius of Shakespeare." Mr. R. Zimmermann the Latin, “De Diversis Tniutitae Generibits et Causis,” and Mr. H. Vogel the German, “Die Deutsche Sprache in unserer Mitte.” President Kowalke will address the audience and graduates, and distribution of diplomas will follow. Music will be furnished by the college orchestra, by the mixed chorus, by the chorus, and by the band.

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• 氺氺氺 The Co-eds of St. Paul-Luther College, St. Paul, Minnesota, deserve to l)e congratulated! The “Ko-ed Kopy” of the Luther Echo is good. The eighteen co-eds attending* the school must in­ deed 1>c “live-'vires.” Just one suggestion for the Luther Echo, which we consider rather important by way of improving your paper: give us more articles and editorials. Thoughts and reac­ tions of the various students are always interesting.

The Cadet Review of St. John’s Military Academy, Delafield, Wisconsin and the Academy News of Morgan Park Military Acad­ emy. Chicago, are both papers put out by the Cadets of the re­ spective academies. As cadet papers they reflect a life which is little known to the average student of a college or university. These two papers are just a hit too local in character. By adding discussions on topics of universal interest your papers would also be of interest to the non-cadet.

Old Gold and Black, published by the students of Wake Forest Collcge, North Carolina, is modeled after the plan of a city newspaper, and the plan is well carried out. The headlines, cap­ tions, and leads are well chosen and coax one to read the entire paper, column by column. The surprising thing in this paper is that, contrary to the average college paper, no space whatever is devoted to humor. Hardly one little joke is permitted to creep in.

IVobahlv this fact is somewhat accounted for and explained by the excellent editorial “What Price Humor” in the May 9th issue. The editorial department of the May 16th issue contains more locals than editorials.

The Torch, Valparaiso University, Indiana, is an excellent paper, enthusiastic and interesting. The editorials in your paper are — — exceptionally good, and the cartoons and sketches you use to Jencl your paper a lighter element help to make the paper interest­ ing. The column “Open Forum” is a good thing. All college papers should have a column in which the students may discuss and sug­ gest things for the improvement of their college.

Phi Beta Kappa has been spurned again, this time by a woman student at the University of Wisconsin. She gave as her reason, that she does not consider the grades and marks a genuine criterion of true scholarship and intellectual achievement.

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LAKE FOREST 3, NORTHWESTERN 2 Northwestern met its first defeat of the season at the hands of Lake Forest. Coach Brown’s men played brilliantly in the field.

Maver, pitching for the visitors, through his change of pace—one nioment he would throw the hall with dazzling speed, the next de­ livery would lie slow—constantly kept Northwestern guessing.

Only in the first inning was he bit hard. Leerrsen, though strikipg out fewer men than the oppos'iig pitcher, showed up almost equally well. The few scattered hits that he allowed would not have g^iven Lake Forest an opportunity to score had not several costlv errors been made by his teammates. l^ut ten I-ake Forest players faced Leerrsen in the first three innings. The fourth was our downfall. Ferzacca hit an easy grounder to third;;a poor throw to first, which Sachs (ailed to scoop up. put the runner on second. Burke knocked a grounder to the pitcher and was thrown out on first; Rostko'vski’s high and easy fly into center field was dropped by Voigt; thus, through two errors. Lake Forest had two men on bases and needed only Roskie’s hit, a two-bagger, along third 1)ase line to score two runs. Roskie, attempting to reach third on the throw-in was put out. With the bases empty Orth hit a two-bagger; Stang slammed the ball over ihird, advancing Orth. Palmer knocked a grounder to the pitcher and ended the inning;. ' Lake Forest again scored in the eighth. Ferzacca hit over second: Burke sacrificed; Rostkowskie knocked a grounder to the short stop ； Zilz’s throw to third came just too late to catch Ferzacca; Roskie sacrificed to center field, and Ferzacca scored on the throw-in.

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ARMOUR TECH. 1, NORTHWESTERN 0 On the eighteenth of May Northwestern suffered an honorable defeat, as the score will indicate, at the hands of Armour Tech. at Chicago. It was a pitchersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; battle throughout. Leerssen of Northwestern allowed only five hits and fanned seven opponents.

Simpson, the opposing pitcher, had fifteen strike-outs to his credit with but three hits. It was a fast, air-tight, practically errorless game, lasting no longer than an hour and a half.

Armour Tech, brought in the sole score of the game in the opening inning. Jarvis, the first man up, knocked out a two-bag1ger; Robin fliecl out to Zilz: Reichle then hit a single, and Jarvis scored; Erdstrand hit a pop fly: Rosetti his a grounder, and the game was ended as far as scoring is concerned.

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The strong Armour Tech. Baseball team, which but a week be­ fore had defeated Northwestern by a score of one to nothing, again took us into camp, in a game which, aside from Hoenecke's home run and a fast triple play by the visitors, was slow and lacking in interest. Costly errors at critical moments gave Armour most of their runs. Leerssen, pitching for Northwestern, allowed but six hits; the opposing pitcher allowed eight.

Northwestern scored immediately in the first inning. Hoenecke was tbrown out on a grounder: Rohde drove a hit through second : Zilz Hied out to the first baseman; Blumenthal smashed a liot grounder between short and third, advancing Rohde; Fritze duplicated the feat, ;ind Rohde scored : Leerssen then walked, and with bases filled Sachs struck out.

We brought in another run in the seventh inning. Captain Iioenecke hit a fast grounder along third-base line into left field, where the ball bounded clearly over the fielder; the result was a home run. Rohde and Zilz successfully drove hits over second; with none clown and a man on first and second, Blumenthal knock­ ed a high line drive to the second baseman, who made a spectacular catch «*ind threw the ball to the short-stop covering second; he relaved to first just in time to complete a fast triple play.

Armour scored in iho second, fifth, and sixth innings. Erdstrand opened the second inning with a hard drive into center field.

Augustine knocked a grounder to short, putting Erdstrand out on second: Augustine stoic second and Kasischke caught Rosetti’s !iot liner. With two down Cent smashed out a three bagger, scoring Augustine; Stehno Hied out to center field.

In the fifth inning- Gent reached first on a fast drive through the pitcher: Stehno bunted along the first-base line; Leerssen, in throw­ ing the ball to first, hit the runner: the ball, rolling into right field, l)ermiued Gent to advance to third and Stehno to second: Yownt hit a texas leaguer over second, bringing in two runs.

In the following inning； Armour again scored two runs, largely because of Blumenthars error.

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WATERTOWN 5, NORTHWESTERN 4 Northwestern was ignominously defeated by the Watertown City team in their traditional game on Memorial Day. A host of errors prevented Leerssen from winning a game, which, by virtue of his excellent pitching, should have been ours—he allowed but six scattered hits. The game, aside from one inning of unlicensed erring, was fast and interesting;.

Northwestern brought in its first two runs in the second inning, Frit.ze grounded out; Leerssen hit a two-1)agger into center field; Kasischke singled, scoring Leerssen; Voigt knocked a three-base hit into right field, and Kasischke scored; Hoenecke Hied out.

In the fourth inning Leerssen hit a three-bagger; Sachs struck out; Kasischke sacrificed, and Leerssen scored; Voigt Hied out.

Henke took up the mound duties for Watertown in the seventh inning. Undaunted thereby, Sachs knocked a grounder to the first baseman and beat him to the sack : Kasischke sacrificed; Voigt drove a liner over short, scoring Sachs; Hoenecke then struck out. and Rohde’s foul was caugl it by the first baseman.

Watertown scored four runs in the third inning. To tell the story in detail would 1)e too tedious. Nothing- but errors ，five errors on Northwestern's part and two hits account for these runs.

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Rohde, 2b.

Zilz, ss.

Blumcnthal, rf.

Fritze, If. Leerssen, P. Sachs, lb.

Kasischke, 3b.

Voigt, cf.

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Nowack, 2b, Glatzel. cf.

Kohli, rf.

Schuman, c.

Marquardt, ss.

Maltz, lb.

Luther, If. Radtke, PHenke, p.

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The collcgiates are turning back to the games of their childish days. We noticed that some played “Last Couple Out,” some "Farmer in the Dell,” and a few took great pleasure in a game of marbles—until Maaske played the bully and .‘snatcli-grabbed” the ’.niiggles.’’ It seems that they have been enjoying a much better time in their second childhood than they did in their first. \\ alter and Norl^ert Paustian attended the funeral of their grandfather, Rev. A. F. Siegler，at Wonevvoc, Wisconsin, May 9.

The Vesuvius clul) elected its officers for the next year. ''Ger­ ry" Martin was made president. “Charlie” Lawrenz vice-president, “Erv” Ncubert secretary, and “Shanks” Leerssen treasurer. The clul) voted to keep Kettenacker in his present office of sergeant at amis for another year. ’’Stier” says, “I，m still bouncer.”一The smoking clul) decided not to have a picnic this spring. A perfectly good day had been chosen to have the annual outing, but because the Mixed Chorus sang at the funeral of Mabel Baker on that day, tlie picnic had to be postponed. Owing to band and orchestra re­ hearsals. no suitable clay could be decided upon. The club will very probably have its picnic next fall instead of waiting until the close of the school year when it is hard to select a day which does not conflict with other activities. :‘Tuffy’’ Werner, ex，28, visited old friends and acquaintances a.t Northwestern May 12. “Tuffy” intends to take up the occupa­ tion of printing. * ' 96

1 liaseball outside the campus has attracted several of those who on the campus are our stars. (Is that correct?) Fritze pitched a game for Ixonia and won about twelve to one or so. His •opponents, who cannot l)e named, developed a very serious inferior­ ity complex when they started to bat against a “pitcher from North'vesteirT and Fritze "went over large.” Zilz has been acting as umpire in the Central Little Four League. He has become peculi­ arly adept at (lodging pop bottles, brick bats, ancl various other implements ancl instruments which fans or fanatics see fit to hurl at him. His latest funny one is, ''Umpire, what’s the difference between a ball ancl a strike?” Arinin Rohde has been playing at shortstop with the Watertown city team. He too has been going well, but we don't know any jokes about him.

Kaspar acted as best man at the wedding of his cousin May 16.

He says, "I didn’t bring any cigars back, but maybe I’m the best man at that."

By the way, what happened to the baseball team after the Ar­ mour Tech, game in Chicago ?

Of late “Slim” Baumann has been taking his exercise on Western Avenue. His exercise consists in walking, that is, chiefly in walking.

“Sleir” Kettenackcr shined his bass horn before the hand had its picture taken. He wanted to shine only one side of it because only one side would show on the picture, but President Timmel wouldn't hear of it.

Tertia has selected its class colors: Kelly green background with burnt orange trimming.

Sexta is imitating Tertia, but instead of a class sweater they have chosen a "class cap.” The white specks, as they appear from a distance, are the Sextaners.

Kurt Kneiske returned on May 29th after an absence of seven weeks, which was clue to heart trouble. He moved into Timniel’s room on first floor. Hilton Oswald carried his possessions down from third floor and is still wondering why Kurt has so many big books. Kurt seems to have acquired a more quiet disposition : per­ haps this is because the finals are so near.

J, lie gym is the scene of nocturnal activities. The Juniors are working hard .putting up a Greek temple for graduating exercises, They are leaving nothing undone in the way of imitating the ancient Greeks. I he Juniors are to be complimented on their ingenu­ ity and initiative ancl, to say the least, thanked for the time and hard work they are putting in.

Tertia elected their class officers on June 1. George Rowe was elected president, Armin Schultz vice-president, and Lawrence Krasm secretary. It is unusual to elect a man who has been at our 97

school only one year class president, but the Tertianers apparently thought lie was the man to fill the office.

To tell the truth, we have had a whole battery of elections thrown upon us in these last days. The military company reelected Reich captain. Schaefer is first lieutenant, and Hammen is second lieutenant. Witt and Reich ran a close race for the cap­ taincy. On the first ballot Witt was second but lost favor at about the tenth ballot. He was made secretary instead of captain.

The literary societies elected officers on the first of June. Carl Lawrenz is president of the IMii Gamma Rho, Gerhard Schaefer vicc-prsident, and Ed'vard Krueger secretary. The election took place with no untoward aftermath. The Philomathian had a little liardcr time of it. Alfred Sauer was made president without any great ado, and the absent Siegfried Fenske, who is still in a hos­ pital in Milwaukee, was elected vice-president. But Ernst Kuehl declined the honor of secretary, and that office is still open. ..Pat” would not make any statement to the editor.

As this is written, the student body as a whole wears a worried look. One sees one sUidcnl pace through the park with his head hanging low and with Kaegi's masterpiece under his arm. Anothers keep step to sonic unintelligible litterings called Hebrew, and still others, Sophs in fact, worry about that man Stewart and his physics, trying without brilliant success to make his physics their possession. After a few long clays of terror and a few short nights of sleeplessness it will all lie over. Exams are without doubt the spice of the school year, but some spices are not very pleasant.

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One of our youngest nieni1)ers, Mabel Baker, passed away May 18, after a long illness. We shall remember her as a conscientious student and a kind and sympathetic friend.

This season still insists upon diminishing our ranks with illness. Dorothy Zier who has a record of a very regular attendance has been absent because of serious illness. Since it is an inoppor­ tune time for absence, we hope that Dorothy will have a speedy recovery. ' • Several former co-eds visited classes in the past month, Melita Voigt, who'is at present attending the Lutheran High School at Milwaukee, visited classes with Vera Thorman. Myrtle Borkenhagen also acquainted herself with college when she visited with her cousin, Cora Borkenhag；en. ,Vacation time is swiftly clrawinsf near, and with its approach those things are occurring- which are coincident with it. —Betty 98

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Jaeger, Ruth Mayer, Hertha Notbohm, and Glenna Rasmussen re­ ported a very enjoyable time when they visited Glenna’s home one week-end. Irmgard Dornfeld accompanied Rutli Bruesehof to her home at Juneau. Ruth Mayer was so fortunate as to make a trip to Maiv'towoc to show her sisterly affection.

Julia Knispel and Gertrude Nauman, on the other hand, have preferred the healthy exercise of walking. They favor athletics* and consequently have adopted the habit of “hiking.”

Dorothy Groth, Betty Jaeger, Ruth Mayer, and Glenna Rasmussen have established a record for primordial swimming. They are none the worse for the feat.

Yes, Irmgard Dornfeld has birthdays too, although it mav seem that her years advance； to a greater degree than her stature !

Ruth Bruesehof and Marie Taras helped her observe her birthday.

On the evening of May 29, the Co-eds had their annual ban­ quet at the Green Bowl Tea Shoppe. Margaret Schmeling was loastm:stress for the occasion. Much to our disappoiiitiiient, Lenore Ge'veke, who was to give the farewell address, was unable to l)e present. Mully was therefore called upon hv the toastnustress to bid us farewell. Alice Bentzin pleased us with a humorous poem. Evelyn Voigt played several classical piano selections.

Marie Taras presented a humorous selection. After the splendid dinner, everyone joyously participated in the entertainments.

We congratulate ourselves upon its success, because each one contributed to make it successful.

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May I call to the stu<lents, attention that I shall gladly accept contributions to my column at any time. Contributions up to this time have been rather meager. I make this appeal to every stu­ dent. (This includes the co-eds despite the report that a woman has no humor). Lot's luive your jokes. 氺 Meyer: ‘.Will you give me your white cooky for my black one?”

Schwartz :“Sure.”

Meyer: “Well, I would have given it to you anyhow,” He: “And how shall I have your wedding ring engraved?’’

Publisher’s Daughter: “All rights reserved.” 氺氺氺 Colored Customer: **Ah wants a toothbrush.”

Clerk: “What size will you have?”

C. C.: “De biggest and strongest one you got—(ley’s ten in mah family.

That young l)ridc worships her husband, doesn’t she?” ‘'Veil，she places burnt offerings before him three times a day.” d SILENT EMILY POST Pecher: “See that man over there ? He’s an etiquette teach­ er in a deaf-and-dumb school.”

Lenz: **What are his duties?”

Pecher: “He teaches the pupils not to talk with their hands

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Daughter: “Yes, but I don’t think he’ll get away.” 本氺氺 Wagner: “What do you expect to be when you become of age?

Peters: ''Twenty-one. 氺氺氺 ''Look at that man's chest expansion.v “That’s no chest expansion. He got that from patting him­ self on the back.”

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INDEX OF VOLUME XXXI 9 Adam Smith一E. Wagner 16, 52, 88, 123, 150, 185, 220, 250, 285, 316 Alumni Notes一-------------45 Americanization—L. Geweke -------------------------------170 And Everything—Lee Sabrowsky ------------------------.169 Apology for Greek Syntax (Poem)—M. Franzmann 1-36 ^\pri 1 Issue 24, 59, 96, 130, 156, 191, 227, 264, 292, 324 Athletics-~~........ -- ............ —--Bums Both—E. Kasischkc — 34, Campus and Classroom ..........

■ 68, 108, 135, 166, 204, 233, 268, 300, 334 —212 Chicago Board of Trade. The—A. Sippert Chinese Version of the Creation of the World, The—Rev. H. G. Hallock」43 .31, 66, 105, 134, 164, 203, 232, 266, 299, 332 Co-cd Notes 18, 55, 90, 125, 151, 186, 222, 252, 290, 317 College Notes_______ __ — 42 Cyrano dc Bergerac—H. von Haden .

207-236 December Issue ..........

209 Dreaming (Poem)—C. Trapp .

-14. 49, 86, 121, 147, 181, 217, 247, 282, 313 Editorials........... ............. . _________ 71 English Oration—H. Hackbarth 22, 57, 94, 128715471887225^ 256,~290T322 February Issue ................... ........ ............................... ................................271-302 • 74 German Oration—E. John ........ .141 Hash on Halitosis—L. Risto'v ....

37 Hellas (Poem)—M, Franzmann ------- ----------.... 275 “It Happens Once in a While”一M. Schmcling .

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THE BLACK AND RED Volume XXXII.

Watertown, Wis., Sept., 1928

Number 4

Entered at the Postofllce at Watertown. Wis., as second class matter under Act of March 3, 1879. Published monthly. Subscription, One Dollar.

LUCIAN THE WRITER One by one the legions of Rome were abandoning the provinces of Mesopotamia and Assyria then recently overrun by the golden eagle> This evacuation was done by order of the new emperor Hadrian, the Traveller and the Greekling, as he was dubbed for his warm admiration for Hellenistic culture. Hadrian realized that to attempt to hold what his predecessor Trajan had conquered would be useless. Under this rattle of sword and halberd, amid the din of brass tubas and the shouts of Roman centurions, and at a time when the purple banners with their golden eagles and S. P. Q> R's were facing the Mediterranean; when the native princes were again sidling into thrones still warm from Latin life,—there was born in the year 120 A. D. in the little Syrian city of Samosata on the Euphrates a boy whom his parents named Lycinos.

Of his childhood days there is little known. Most likely, how­ ever, he played with his chums in the dirt and filth of those narrow Oriental alleys, clogged with dark merchants, caravans from. Per­ sia or India, asses, and snarling yellow curs. Nevertheless, if we are permitted to take one of his later literary pieces, his “Dream,” as partly autobiographical, we may glean some little more of his boyhood. When Lucian, as he is usually called, had left the primary school, his father called a council of the friends and relations 102

of the family, acording to an old custom in the land, to help him decide the boy's future. As it happened there was a venerable .. uncle, by trade a sculptor and a stone-cutter, present at the sitt.ing and acordingly it was decided to make a sculptor of him against his will to get a liberal education. Undoubtedly the. family’s finan­ cial situation together with the boy’s early inclination toward the making of mud pies and other things in which the father, with a bit of strain of imagination, saw resemblance to natural objects played a part in the speedy decision, upon which the boy was given over to his uncle to learn the art of sculpture. Nevertheless, it so happened that the youth in his carelessness spoiled a very good block of marble in his first attempt and received as an initiation to this art a good flogging. That night he cried himself to sleep and, as he relates, had a dream so very similar to the story of Hercules at the Waysjthat our trust in the truthfulness of the autobiography is somewhat shaken. Iiis vision in short was this: Two women, one roughly clothed, dusly and ungainly, the other strikingly pretty, young, lithe, and elegantly dressed, approached his bedside. The first begged him to follow her to fame in sculpture, while the other prayed him follow her to happiness and bliss in learning. His de­ cision fell with the latter. Then, if we still trust in the authenti­ city of the story as autobiography we may assume that with the help of a sympathetic mother he ran away from Samosata.

How much truth we can place in the tale told in the “Dream” we do not know. One is tempted to doubt much of it when he reads and so I，too, have toward the end of the essay these words: told this dream to you to the end that men may turn to the, better part and lay hold of learning---- On the other hand, assuming that he was put to that trade so much against his will and having heard the story of Hercules told and retold it is not at all impossible that in his misery and self-pity he was so much impressed by the similarity of his situation with that of Hercules that he did dream.

From his writings and others’，we gather that he followed the , itinerant professors of rhetoric and literature throughout Ionia, that he spent some time in Antioch, the Rome of Asia, where he must have come into contact with the so-called Chrestianoi. What we know of these years is scant, and what we have of his life as a young vagrant professor and lecturer of rhetoric in Gaul, Syria and Greece is still more flimsy. Upon retiring from that sort of life at about forty years of age, he revisited his birthplace, found his father still alive and took him back to Athens.

Marcus Aurelius was a student and a patron of students, and thus we find Lucian in the royal library at Alexandria invested with the office of clerk or scribe of courts. An English student of the classics has compared his situation at this juncture with that of Samuel Johnson, who after having defined the words “pensioner” 103

in his dictionary as one who thought better of it and under apolo­ gies accepted the pension offered him by Lord Bute. But just previous to his appointment Lucian’s pen had dripped the satirical .essays on “Parasitism” and “Upon Hired Companions” and he felt that an “Apologia” was necessary.

Was Lucian a Christian? We have heard that he spent much time in Antioch, a great center of Christianity, that he was a stu­ dent. A reader of his works would answer no. However, opin­ ions in the affirmative are given and supported in this fashion. In none of his known writings does he scoff openly and directly at Christians and when he does call the “Christus” the “crucified sophist” that necessarily does not have to show spite. Lucian to all appearance had very little knowledge of Christian tenets. Through a:l of his work there is nothing to indicate that he understood Christ, To him Christianity was just another oriental fad begun by another petty sophist, killed at Jerusalem by order of the gov­ ernor; to him the Olympic trash, the Eleusinian Mysteries, the Adonis cult, the Magna Maler, the superstitions the legions brought from the German forests were all alike deception. It was a time of spiritual bankruptcy in the Empire, and Lucian too, as did most of the men of letters at his time, despised all of the cults. They counted beliefs olT on their fingers, Zeus and his tribe, filth; Magna Mater, folly; monotheistic Judaism with its wrathful Jahveh, crude, ami Christianity, as Tacitus would have it, “damnable superstition.”

In nearly every one of his writings he scoffs at the old poly­ theism. In the dramatic piece “Zeus the Tragedian/* the polyganiic monster god is pictured ashy-white and trembling for his throne, and all because two insignificant philosophers, a Stoic and an Epicurean, are al)out to dispute in public about the truth of the divinities, and Hera laughs and says: “These groans, these tears, this pallor are symptoms of the lover ancl nobody else.” Zeus orders Hermes to call a council, and Hermes being a poor speaker, appropriates some hexameters from Homer to his call. At the council the gods are to be given places according to their materials and workmanship, whether gold, silver, ivory, bronze, stone, or wood, whether by Phidias, Myron, Praxiteles. But ^that creates difficulties, because the Colossus of Rhodes insists upon quantity ancl Aphrodite on beauty before age. After complications are settled, Zeus makes an introductory speech copied from one of the Philippics of Demosthenes. In the course of the speech he illustrates the respect for the council by the story of a sea-captain who, when in great danger of ship-wreck, made a vow of hecatombs and )vhen safely ashore offered in place an aged asthmatic cock and a ^e'v. grains of stale frankincense. In this way Lucian goes on to deride the oracles ancl other things sacred and all in those subtly numerous tones peculiar to his style.

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The “Sale of Lives” is another dramatic work in which Zeus and Hermes are pictured as autioneers, and eminent old philoso­ phers are the objects of sale. Pythagoras is first on the block, and when, asked what he teaches he propounds his ideas of “1，2, 3, 4, is 10” and a perfect triangle and what we swear by, namely Unity or Deity. The buyer answers by swearing the high oath, **By Four.” Diogenes is next represented as dirty, soiled, sullen, shame­ less. Epicurus of Cyrene appears in purple robes, garlands, bleary-eyed, drunk, dissipated and perfumed; Demoritus must laugh at everything, because, he says, everybody’s doings are empty and infinitesimal. Heraklitus weeps, for the present is unimportant, catastrophe alone looms ahead; Socrates is the chatterbox, t.lie abrogator of all manner of laws, the father of idealism; Pyrrhias believes that nothing exists, etc. Again through this piece runs the racy, spicy tone of total disgust for the polytheism of his day, expressed so bitterly in his “Dialogues of the Gods,” of which the two stories here synopsized are a part.

After having read 1)ut a few of Lucian's dialogues one ^can readily form an opinion of the author's ability as a novelle writer.

“A True History” is a monumenlal Greek fairy tale chockfull of preposterous and fantastic scenes and doings. In his introduction he tells us that his object in these tales is merely to entertain and to offer relaxation to the reader, and he certainly has accomplished that. He held that if Homer, Ktesias, Iambulas, ancl Herodotus had a right to tell us such gigantic lies he had a similar license.

In the “true History” the writer pictures a journey through the Pillars of Hercules, experiences with monsters and other urmsual adventures. But we are most astounded when we read of his gro­ tesque experiences in the body of a whale. “Jonah” flashes at once through our mind. Did the author in some way, perhaps at• Alexandria or at Antioch, lay hold of a copy of the Septuagint?

Is he here original or does he laugh at the Hebrew story ? Most likely- 've shall never know.

In. the “As.s” he relates his ficticious experience in the transformation of his body to the form of an ass, through the mistake of a slave girl sorceress, and his delivery from that state by the eating of roses. The incidents of these novelles do not permit ot sjniopsis and must l)e read to be appreciated. The views they give of all sides of contemporary life are valuable to the students of history.

In reading the old classical authors it strikes one how formid­ ably the ego of nearly all of them steps to the foreground; Lucian is no exception. Yet, the reason for this becomes quite evident when we consider that life for most of them was a matter of years with a gloomy end, and that therefore all honor and joy must be got during a lifetime.

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THE LADY WHO SINGS The whistling of the wind, dark objects flying past, the roar of the motor, a crash, and then silence and darkness. Wayne Ham­ ilton, heir to his father’s millions, lay in that silence and darkness unconscious of his own existence, of time, of place, of every thing.

When consciousness returned, he was too bruised and broken even for the desire to live. They told him how the young men he had with him had escaped with minor injuries, how he had been pinned beneath the car, and how long they thought he might live. He longed to tell them that lie wished to die.

How long he lay in that helpless condition, Wayne never knew, but is was the voice of someone singing that brought back the de­ sire to live. The voice was sweet and liquid and seemed to call him from the pit of lifelcssncss into which he had fallen. He found himself listening to it, and when it stopped or drifted away, waiting to hear it again. He began to take an interest in the things about him, in the doctors and nurses who attended him and in the old apple tree outside his window. He felt ashamed of the childish joy lie experienced to find the tree in blossom one morning. That same morning the doctor told him he would live, and Wayne clasped his hand and thanked him—as though the doctor had power to give and take his life.

He was lying in the delirious state between sleeping and wake­ fulness, when his door opened cautiously and a pair of big blue eyes looked in.

“Please in and stay awhile,M Wayne said.

The door opened farther and the owner of the eyes stepped in.

Wayne saw that the child could not be more than six or seven years old. His hair was bright and curly, but his face and hands were hideously scarred.

“Eunice and I are going to pick some apple blossoms. If you want some, we’ll pick some for you,” the little fellow piped as he stopped just within the door.

“Apple blossoms? Oh, by all means, yes,” he added as he saw the eager expression on the fellow’s face.

Without another word the head of yellow hair bobbed without the door again, and Wayne wondered if he had not been dreaming.

A few minutes later, however, he heard him below his window and knew that someone else was with him, evidently the “Eunice” he liad spoken of.

“Is this one all right, Jimmy?” The voice was sweet and clear, and Wayne thought he had heard it somewhere before. “I’ve felt of the buds on this branch and there seem to be a lot of them.”

“Yes, yes there are,” the child’s voice was all excitement, “pick that branch.”

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His window was open a few inches and Wayne could hear the branch snap as it was broken.

Here it “Here’s another pretty one,” the child was saying, is, right above your head.”

Wayne could see a pair of slender hands rising amid the blossoms and creeping along an especially loaded branch. At a word from the child the branch was broken. Several times the hands were raised just high enough for him to view them. They were attractive hands, and he wondered if the girl who owned them were as beautiful.

Half an hour later the door o pened again and Jimmy entered, the scars almost hidden by the brightness of his smile.

44Eunice said I should ask you if two branches are e nough.

There are so many people who want some and she couldn’t break all the branches she could reach/' “Oli，they’re plenty，’，Wayne replied. **Put them down there on the table—the nurse will put them in water—and thank you.

But tell me, who is Eunice?”

“Oh，she’s the lady who sings. She lets me call her Eunice because Miss Westfield takes so long to say.” ^ ， “How interesting—Jimmy. Will you ask “the lady who sings” to come and see me after you have delivered all your flowers? I have something to tell her.”

“Yes, I’ll tell her,” and the little fellow was off again.

It took a long time before his visitor came, and Wayne fell asleep waiting for her. When he awoke his eyes first fell upon the little boy who was standing at his window gazing; out. In the chair near the window sat a young woman.

Her eyes were big and blue, and held a sweet, sad expression within them. She must have felt his gaze upon her, for she dropped the hand upon which her cheek had rested and turned her head.

Wayne was the first to speak. “Good morninc：, Miss Westfield,M he said. .

“It-it really isn’t morning, Mr. Hamilton. I-I think it is near­ ly two o’clock.” 二Oh,” Wayne laughed. “Good afternoon then.” ::G?od afternoon，” she smiled back.

—the little Jliss Westfield,” Wayne spoke seriously now, “— boy Jimmy told me that was your name and that you were “the who sings”一I asked to see you because I want to thank you.

Your singing has done so much for me.”

“Oh, I am glad of that.”

The first time I heard you, I thought you were_ an Angel and I was]nearing heaven,n he blushed at the words but kept on. “I kye'v though, that a fellow like me would never have the pleasure of nearing heaven, so I abandoned that idea and decided life was 107

worth living after all. I think the desire to hear more of, your singing really helped me back to the strength I have gained.^ “It couldn’t have done that much for you, Mr. Hamilton,M the girl twisted her hands nervously within her lap, “but it is kind of you to think so. They told me you had been in an accident and were seriously hurt. The boys upstairs say my singing helps them to forget their pain for awhile, and so I thought it would help you too, a little, if I sang in the hall outside your door. I am glad you liked it.” She too, blushed now and rose to her feet. “TTie nurse told us not to stay long and that you are not to talk much as yet.

I think we had better go.”

“I am sorry you must. Will you sing again to-night?”

“If you wish it.”

“I should appreciate it.”

The little boy took hold of her hand and together the two walked to the door. Il was not until then, when she held out a hand with slender, tapering fingers, and moved it back and forth, as if groping for an imaginary object near the door, that Wayne realized she was l)lin(l. rl'he discovery took his breath away. He watched to see if he had not imagined her hand waving in the air, but he only saw her step over the threshold and then stand per­ fectly still until the little boy had closed the door behind him. Such a beautiful thing blind—it could not be. But that was why she had "felt of the l)uds” and there had “seemed to be” a lot of them.

He remembered now that the hands had waved a triflle aimlessly among the flowers and when they touched a branch, they had crept along it. Blind! He thought of the sweet expression her eyes had had and how deep they had seemed. They certainly had not betrayed their pitiable condition.

That night when he inquired, the nurse told him Miss Westfield’s sad story. It seemed, her father, a rich merchant in the city, long before the girl was born, had founded the hospital, given it to the city, and created a fund for all those who were unable to pay. for the treatment they received in it. Then there had been business reverses when Eunice Westfield was still a small girl, and th family although not impoverished, was obliged to lead a simpler life-Eunice, after her school days, taught school and hoarded all the money she earned with that one thing in view, to study vocal music with a great artist. After two years of teaching her father died, the only relative she had besides a cross old aunt. Then her blindness came. In a vain attempt to prevent the catasrophe, she sPent the little money she had earned and her father had left her, visiting better physicians in larger cities. Either she did not see the right physician or her blindness was incurable—at any rate she returned to the city totally blind. When arrangements were made to put aside a part of the fund her father had long ago created for 108

♦ arhe others and also a suite of rooms at one end of the hospital for the young woman’s use, she reluctantly accepted, consoledd by the once thought that after all she was using money and a home that... had been her father’s. And so she lived there one year, visiting the women patients, telling stories to the children, and singing to the men.

When the nurse had finished, the girl’s voice itself drifted in from the hall and Wayne asked that the door be opened so he might hear all she sang. It was a song appropriate for evening, and knowing her story, Wayne felt deeply moved. He lay silent a minute after the melody drifted into silence; then he remembered the little boy Jimmy and askecl the nurse about him.

“I shall tell you about him, Mr. Hamilton,” the nurse was plain­ ly impatient with him, “if you refrain from asking more questions.

You have heard enough now to keep you a'vake all night and I shall have to give you sleeping powders.”

“Those are all I can think of at present,” Wayne laughed, “so you may be assured there won’t be any more, ‘I won’t answer any more, if there are. the nurse replied shortly. “The boy was dreadfully burned in his mother’s kitchen a few weeks ago. He is receiving the finishing' touches on liis wounds and may be going home any day now. Eunice became very much attached to him, and after he was well enough _ to walk about the two would go visiting together. To-day they supplied almost all the rooms in the hospital with apple blossoms.”

The next morning Wayne was delighted to see the girl, with little Jimmy at her side, entering his room.

“Are you awake today, Mr. Hamilton?” she asked while Jim­ my shut the door behind her.

“Yes, I am awake,” Wayne replied. “Please sit down.”

“Thank you/' she said, while Jimmy led her to a chair. ^You see, I had to ask, because—I’m blind.” Wayne thought she said the last words almost regretfully, as though confessing a guilt or wrong she had done.

“Yes, I know, Miss Westfield,” he answered slowly. UI am sorry.

“Thank you.” The words were simply said and Wayne saw she seemed relieved that he knew.

There followed one of the most pleasant hours Wayne had ever spent. The boy’s chatter was amusing and the young woman’s conversation as entertaining as her singing. There was somethinguncanny, knowing she was blind, in the way her eyes would find his face and rest upon it when he talked. He noted that her hands lay quite still in her lap to-day and that after she had told him of her blindness she seemed quite at ease. Wayne, who had traveled and was fond of travel, led the conversation to that topic. His 109

visitor told him she had never been farther than Chicago, but when he mentioned the different places of interest he had visited in Italy and Germany, he found she knew as much of them as he.

Every day they came to see him after that. After the little boy was taken home, a nurse would lead her into his room and when th ey were tired of talking, Wayne read to her, or she sang, Wayne found she was deeply religious—and for the first time in his life he felt ashamed to own he was not a member of any church.

When she learned that, she brought her Bible along, and sweetly and unoffendingly asked if he would not read to her, saying that the women who had 1)ccn wont to do so had returned home. Wayne laughed and told her lie saw her scheme of conversion; but nevertheless he was won over. finding it pleasant to ask questions and have her answer them. He wondered what his friends would s ay— how coarse and vulgar they seemed now一if they could see him.

The accident had ocurrcd seventy-five miles from his home town, and Wayne felt glad that the distance hindered them from coming often.

And so six weeks of pain obliterated by pleasure passed by.

There was no denying it, Wayne told himself, he was indebted to this fair creature, who had been such a companion to him, and what was more, he was in love with her. The occasion to tell her so, came quite unexpectedly on the afternoon of his departure. In a repentent mood one day, he had written his father and asked for­ giveness for wrecking the car in the acident and for getting into another scrape. Mr. Hamilton Sr. was accustomed to that kind of letter and only said "Bah !" as he threw the sheets into his wastepaper basket. When, however, another letter came in which his son gave a glowing account of the girl who had said it was only dutiful of him to keep up his correspondence with his father, the old man read it twice. And when another came in which he hear, 4,Dad, don’t think I'm crazy, but Miss Westfield has charmed me into reading the Bible." And a few lines on, “I think, when I re­ turn, I shall be ready to take your place at the office, as you have always wished it,” the old man bluntly wrote back that he would call for his son himself, because he wanted to see the woman who h^icl “tamed the wild scapegrace.” Wayne read the letter to Eu­ nice who laughed and said she’d be glad to meet the old gentlenian. And so Wayne on the afternoon of his father’s arrival, fully recovered and walking about, was waiting for Eunice in the sun parlor where he would receive his father. From his chair in the sunny room Wayne could look down the long hall that led to the blind girl’s room. As she emerged through her door on the arm of one of the nurses, Wayne went to meet them.

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“The Lady Who Sings seems pensive to-day,** he said as he smiled down at her.

“I am wondering what the meeting with your father will be like.” Her voice trembed a little and Wayne wished he knew if that had been a white lie or not.

They were silent for a few more paces. Wayne drew the arm more closely into his. Then, “We are passing down a long hall, arm in arm. Would it not be pleasant so to pass down the Hall of Life—together?M He was suddenly reminded of a bird with a broken wing. She tried to withdraw her arm, but he held it fast.

“Oh, Mr. Hamilton,” she gasped.

Please don’t.

“Eunice, Eunice, don’t call me Mr. Hamilton. I have always wanted to tell— But she had broken away and was running down the hall, close to the, wall, feeling and groping with her hands. Dazed for a moment, Wayne watched her and then started after her.

“Miss Westfield, please stop,” he gasped. “Please stop for one moment. I shall not hurt you.”

She stopped with her back close to the wall.

“It is only pity, compassion, that you feel because I am blind.”

The words were full of pain, •’No, no. I loved you even before I knew you were blind•” “Even if you did,” there was an awful calmness in her voice, "I am blind and only a burden.M No, 110, never. What is that—Then as it dawned on him, “Your regard for me has never been the same?”

There was a long silence which to Wayne took on the proporlions of an eternity. The eyes sought his face, found it andi rested there.

“Yes.”

Wayne bowed, ul am sorry. Shall T take you to your room?’’

“Yes.” They reached the door in silence.

“We have passed many pleasant hours together,” lie said be­ fore he released her arm.

“Yes, many pleasant hours. Good bye.”

“Good-bye.”

He managed to explain it all to his father somehow, and to beg of him to hurry out of the building as soon as possible, To stay there longer, seemed to make it hurt more. His account was hastily settled and a few details preparatory to his departure made.

He was already in the car, when looking back for the last time, he saw her coming, heedless of stair or of anything that might lie in her path.

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“Oil, wait Wayne. Tt was all a lie, and Til come. Oh, it is terrible to stay all alone in the darkness! Please wait, I’ll come.”

And so, two or three hours later, when the car finally did start, the Lady Who Sings rode along.

Alice Kuhnke VAGARIES OF ADVERTISEMENTS One rainy day this vacation (for even that glorious past vacation had several rainy days) .1 was studying,一dare I say it? Yes, I’ll brave the scorn of Mencken and openly confess—I was study­ ing that magazine which was founded A. D. 1728 by the author of Poor Richards Almanac. You have it: the S. E. P. I had heard about the enormous cost of a one page advertisement in the S. E. P., and, possessing the proverbial feminine curiosity in good measure, 1 demanded satisfaction. How were these expensive ads put up?

Wherein is the peculiar appeal to justify the advertiser to pay the to me breath-taking： sum of ?15,000 for one single page?

I opened the magazine at random. Ah, here is an ad! A direct appeal lo the feminine heart, in other words: a bargain, ••Get your stockings free by using- this tooth-paste.” What in the world—? Well! Not so good after all. The ad simply tells you that if you use enough lubes of this particular cheaper and better paste (safe-guard against halitosis = s. n. f. u. b.) you can buy a pair of stockings with llie pennies saved. Humph!

Oh, hut on the other page, a wonderful picture. It is sublime.

It is true art. 1 have wandered through Layton Art Gallery and admired the paintings there. I have gazed upon copies of beauti­ ful paintinsrs of the greatest artists; but few paintings have cast :,thisadinthe.S. E. P. I such- a spell of enchantment over me as gazed and gazed and began to dream. It was Waikiki ^ Beach, Hon^ olulu. Blue sky; wonderful sea; a snowy mountain peak rising towards heaven; a huge plant, larger by far than our old elm in the college park, probably a palm. The picture held me spell bound, hypnotized. An indescribable longing filled my heart. How I would like to be there on the beach. Just to sit under that won­ derful palm and gaze at the sky, the mountain, the sea. And the climate too must be perfect—no drizzly rain, but eternal warmth and sunshine. If some magic carpet could place me there, I thought I would be at peace with the world. I would forget all about the stiff work that loomed ahead. Sophocles, Tacitus, Chaucer, those admirable but onerous men, would be lifted from my mind. Would­ n’t it be great ? How to get there ?

Oh, yes, I remembered this picture is an advertisement. Surely the ad will tell me how. Eagerly I read on. It is an ad of balloon 112

cord tires. What does the advertiser mean to say ? If I buy that particular brand of tires, I can get to Honolulu? Hardly； it takes more than the price of even the best balloon cord tire to get to Hon­ olulu. From Hydropolis, Wis” to the Pacific Ocean is a long dis­ tance, and then the ocean trip. I am disappointed. Yes, I am disgusted. To be so rudely jerked out of my day dreaming! Oh, Benny Franklin, ever since I read your sayings, which are supposed to be wise—“Early to bed; etc.”一I always considered you one of the great American humorists, yet, I never thought that the magazine you founded would exhibit so grim a sense of humor!

I sat with a glassy stare in my eye. Father came into the room. He looked at me closely.

“What’s the matter? Headache?M In a daze I answered, “No，I think I’ll lake our balloon cord tires for a drive to Waikiki Beach.”

•‘All right. On the way back slop in and get me some Velvet.” (velvet—not for a suit, for his pipe).

I drove through Main Street ancl came to the western limits of the city. A large bill-board near the Milwaukee R. R. tracks immediately attracted my attention. A beautiful young woman is depicted. The face shows personality. Notice the wonderful com­ plexion. Notice the character depicted in every line of her face.

She is the picture of health ancl beauty. She has that elusive some­ thing called charm. I’m sure she’ll never have to have serum in­ jected in her arm to break up those sniffly colds in the head. How I would like to be so strong, so beautiful, so charming! Surely the advertiser will show me the ways ancl means to this end. I found that that woman advertises—cigarettes; a certain brand of cigarettes. Alas! What’ll I do? Father doesn’t smoke cigar­ ettes, and I have no brothers from whom I could borrow a, couple to learn the difficult and choky art of smoking, and my money is in its usual state of absence. Never will I be able to attain that superb beauty, that calm, serene, aristocratic bearing of the lady on the bill-board.

I think I’ll read no more ads. They raise my hopes to the skies, only to cast them into deepest despair. No, no; Himmel hoch jauchzend, zum Tode betruett” isn’t good for my heart.

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ON DORMITORY LIFE Seeing' that fully two-thirds of our schools’ enrollment again lives in the dormitory, we are occasionally invited to muse on what we owe to this life. We may think of the monetary savings which to most of us were determinative, or we may realize that it offers the best conditions and facilities for the thorough pursuit of a curriculum. Again we may see that it offered the best opportuni­ ties for taking part in the college activities, in its sports, musical organizations and other societies. We will furthermore recognize under what a study of human nature we are invariably put by such an intimate relation with various natures. And since we feel that these years are also a part of our life, we will upon thought surely appreciate the enjoyment which such a constant and varied associa­ tion with young people alone can give.

Yet all these benefits the dormitory student derives without much effort of his own. Calling attention to them will arouse ap­ preciation but less effect their initial enjoyment. Of greater note, however, are the influences in just this kind of life which are so beneficial toward perfecting1 the good habits of obedience, neatness, regularity, self-control and patience. These inflluences are brought about principally by a regular system governing the routine of the dormitory life, which, because it is made for a large crowd, is un­ able to regard personal likes and dislikes and demand immediate 114

1 rules obedience without lengthy explanation. The effect of. these •— depends upon whether the students realize their desirability and take the right attitude towards them. These benefits directed to­ ward the training of characters are therefore only enjoyed、yheii acknowledged, since the added efforts of the students are required.

Seemingly too many students, however, do not believe in any dorm­ itory rules at all. Others with a more practical insight passivel concede the immediate necessity of a few but assume a right censorship by virtue of which they select the plausible and uncumbersome ones and dismiss the remainder from their minds. Since the upper classmen have through the new tutor system received a part in supervising the order in the building, they have thus received an opportunity to examine the force of their personality and to Yet the success of this system prove their ability at directin again lies in the realization of both upper and lower classmen that was introduced not so much for immediate necessity as for a means of training.

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CONSIDERATION Consideration is a very definite part of our life; it is a duty, which many of us are prone to disregard. In our school life, par­ ticularly in our dormitory life, we have countless occasions to show our thoughtful regard for those with whom we come in contact, but too often we are unmindful of those about us and consult only our own selfish pleasure. This lack of consideration manifests it­ self at every turn—in the dormitory, in the classroom, and on the campus. We are too apt to underestimate the value of our neigh­ bor’s time and to assume that, since we do not feel like working, we are perfectly justified in keeping others from their work. The dis­ turbance and disorder in the reading room is due entirely to our inconsideration. Magazines are taken from the shelves and are left lying on the tables; newspapers are strewn about the tables and floors; and reference books are often taken, not to be returned for several days. We see the same disregard in the classroom, where some thoughtless creature amuses himself at the expense of his classmates, who are earnestly trying to derive full benefit from a period. This discourtesy crops out in the dining hall, at our organization meetings, at the literary society meetings, and in al­ most all of the various phases of our daily life.

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One’s everyday conduct, especially his conduct toward those about him, furnish a reliable factor in judging his character.

Ii. ON GOING TO THE MOVIES When the average student at Northwestern wishes to enter­ tain himself on an evening or on a Sunday afternoon, he chooses to go to a movie. Whether the quality of the picture will be such that it is worth while seeing causes him very little worry. He simply goes and sits out his two hours at the theatre and then calls it an evening or an afternoon. He may call it a poor show afterward, hut that does not prevent him from going again. What a waste of time! To all appearances theatre going is merely a habit with the student at Northwestern, a habit that can hardly be called good.

I can already hear the question: “Oh, what can a person do in this town ?

The person asking such a question evidently has never considered seriously what he really can do. Allow me to offer just one suggestion. We are blessed with a good library at Northwestern. In this library very many books have never been as much as touched by the student. The two hours which, are us­ ually spent in the theatre may well be applied to some of this litera­ ture, much of which will be found just as entertaining, and more so, than the average motion picture. If you are looking for a ••kick,” you will have no trouble finding that.

If you must see a picture, be sure that it is a good one. Several reviews are being written by men who can give you a fairly good idea of what you may expect. One thing that you will find in these reviews is this : there are very few pictures that are worth seeing at all.

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JVUlll —Students of eighties may be interested to learn that the Phila­ delphia Seminary Bulletin lists Jacob Muhlenberg Hantz, D. D. LL. D. as the oldest living graduate, being a member of the class of 1868.

On August, 23, some fifteen pastors, classmates and colie agues of the vicinity helped the St. John’s Congregation of Barre Mills celebrate the twenty-fifth Anniversary of the ordination of their pastor, Rev. J. H. Paustian, *00. In appreciation of the blessings enjoyed through his years of service, the congregation presented the jubilarian with a new Graham-Paige.

—-On the next Sunday his classmate Rev. Gerhard Ernst, ’00 of St. Paul, Minn, likewise celebrated his twenty-fifth jubilee.

—Rev. Leonard Koeninger, ’13, of North Fond du Lac has succeeded Rev. Carl Machmueller to the First German Ev. Lutheran Congregation at Manitowoc, Wis.，who has retired after servingthe congregation for thirty-seven years. The vacancy at North Fond du Lac has been filled by Rev. Kurt Timmel, ’20.

—Benjamin Kimpel, ex ’26, who did post graduate work at Mad­ ison last year, is now attending the University of Nebraska at Lin­ coln, an institution to which he has won a scholarship.

—Ora Roelil, ex *28, who completed a course in Public Utilities at the University of Wisconsin in the last year, is now employed at the Wisconsin Public Service Building, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

—Norman Gauerke, ’28, has enrolled as a student in the Chemi­ cal Commerce Department at the University of Wisconsin.

—Erwin Scharf, *28, is teaching at the Winnebago Academy of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.

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一John C. Kuck, ’09, has removed to Minneapolis, where he deals chiefly in church bonds. He recently gavel one hundred dollars to the Alumni Society. Vivat sequens.

—Julius Danimann, ’92, and Albert Dammann，’95, have kindly consented to complete the purchase of the Weimar edition of Luth­ er's works, some fifty volumes of which were paid for by their brother-in-law, the late O. Griebling, 78.

—We announce the birth of a son to Prof, and Mrs. Paul Eickmann, ’16, of Watertown : lo Rev. and Mrs. Martin Buenger, ’21, of Kenosha, Wisconsin; and to Rev. Adolf Zeisler, ’18, of Milwau­ kee, Wis., of a girl to Mr. and Mrs. Albert Manthey, ’15.

—Rev. Waldcmar Sauer of Mazeppa, Minnesota, visited his cousins at Northwestern on Sept. 13.

—Reports of the marriages of Alumni and former students dur­ ing the last months have been quite numerous. We announce the marriage of Walter Stulir, ex ’31，of Waukesha to Miss Norma Bodenschatz of Woodstock, 111. on July 17; of Rev. Bernhard Westendorf, ’18, of Flint, Mich, to Miss Elma Baumann of Milwaukee on August 14; of Rev. Hugo Schnitker，’23, of Faith, South Dako­ ta, to Miss Edna Fritz; of Rev. William Holzhausen, ’21, of South Dakota to Miss Bertha Pinnt of Norfolk, Nebr.

—Thinking that a letter which expresses such a warm tone of appreciation and interest for Northwestern after so long an absence would l)c of interest not only to such of our older readers who have been in intimate relation with Jos. P. Diebert at Northwest­ ern but to all readers in common we print the following letter: Schnecksville, Lehigh Co., Penna” July 10, 1928 To the President of Northwestern College, Watertown, Wisconsin.

Dear Sir: It was in 1876, the year of the Centennial Exposition at Phila­ delphia, when I was a young man of twenty years, that I received a letter from my friend Dr. A. F. W. Notz, then a Professor at your Institution, informing me of my election as a member of the faculty of .Northwestern University. It was an honor and a privilege which I was glad and proud to accept. For a period of two years, from 1876 to 1878, I gave my services to the noble cause of your institution, then returned to Pennsylvania to engage in a similar work up to within a few years ago.

Fifty years is a long time to be separated from friends. I have heard very little about my Watertown friends except what I learned through Dr. Notz from several communication and a few personal visits. I am just a little homesick, and I hope I may not 118

be imposing when I request a little information that I am so anxious to obtain.

I wonder if any members of the faculty as then constituted are still living. I know some of them have since died. The fac­ ulty as then composed had the following members:â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Professors A. F. Ernst, A. F. W. Notz, Tli. Brohm, A. L. Graebner, A. W. Easterday, A. Preller, and myself. I was the successor of Professor J. E. Smith, who died a few years ago, after a long faithful service in the holy ministry.

In 1878 there were 184 students in attendance in the Collegiate and Academic Departments. I wonder how that compares with ihe present number. I still have a picture of the buildings as they existed at that time. Have any changes Ijeen made? What is the population of Watertown?

If you have any catalogues of your institution on hand, I would be pleased to have one forwarded to me.

Two young men from this place accompanied me to your place fifty years ago. They were H. E. Senimel and J. H. Kuder. They both prepared with you for the ministry in which cause they faithfully served until recently when both passed to their reward.

I know that you are a busy man, but if you can do me the favor of giving me such information as you may be able to give, I shall greatly appreciate it.

Thanking you in advance for your kindness, and wishing you and your Institution abundant success, I am Yours very truly, Joseph P. Deibert

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獅⑽多 W c'rc here because we're here, we're here because “dad’put us here, or、ve’r here to get an education. The first clause covers, par­ doning- its triteness, it is estimated, the attitude of nearly sixty per cent of the attendants at universities and colleges the land over; the second and also the last arc well understood.

Seventy-two new faces, downcast and otherwise, are to be seen on the campus. Of these nearly fifty are freshmen in the • academy and the rest arc scattered throughout the high-school and college, the freshmen class of the college having a considerable addition. The dormitories house about one-hundred and eighty men of the two-luindred and seventy-six students in the college.

After getting out from under our load of grips, cases, boxes and odds and ends and mopping our brow we see that the 'Yind.o'vfranies have taken on a coat of neat black paint; the shivering1,. creaking flight of step in the old dormitory has given place to a new one, so that we could hardly believe our feet and our ears; some interior decorating has been done in all of the buildings, while • the “temporary” barracks, used for class-rooms, smacks with its new coat of paint, something of permanency. Two new boilers have also been installed in the dormitory.

Both President E. E. Kowalke and Prof E. Kiessling toured West and Central Europe this summer. Both that the actual visiting of places with historical b^kgr . the incidents infinitely more vivid and realistic, ror ex P » is ’ notworthy that in the Austrian city of Salzburg, fr?m w of the Lutherans were driven in the seventeenth century, 120

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In Germany the new trend in architecture has taken a fast hold; even statutes in the churches bear touches of the ultra-modern. Striking statutes of Christ or of the saints with abnormally large heads, hands and feet, all painted in vivid colors appear in the altar niches. Decoration in the churches is in well defined and bright shades. The buildings of the “Pressa,” international news­ paper exposition at Cologne, and many of the numerous great tenaments built for the poorer classes as a part of the communistic programme in Germany, are examples of the application of the modern ideas. Prof. Kiessling said that these massive tenaments are complete in every way regarding modern conveniences and inBoettcher Strasse in Berlin, eluding even school-rooms. The a street, or rather a community, a block long is built altogether in the unique modern styles. The ideas of art have as their aims the practical and at the same time the aesthetic.

Places of special interest for President Kowalkc were the cas­ tles of Cornwall; the Louvre; in Weimar, Goethe’s home; cities with Reformation history, as Erfurt, Wittenberg', Eisenach; also Nuernberg, Munich, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Zuericli, and Berlin.

Prof. Kiessling’s tour of Germany was made interesting by his connection with a group of teachers, entertained and led by the International Student Society at the various universities and gym­ nasiums. Students, he said, do this gratis, feeling honored if ap­ pointed to this society, the purpose of which is to further inter­ national student relations. At each university city a special reception was prepared by the city magistrates and the regents of the university for the party. Both regular and especially prepared lectures were attended at the various lyceums and universities. Berlin, Dresden, Nuernberg, Munich, Vienna, Zurich, Heklleberg and Bremen vvere the principal cities on his itinerary. Prof. Kiessling also visited the battlefields of France and travelled in England.

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With tlu; opening' of the new school year we hope to welcome all of our old exchange papers back again. To date few have arrived, but we feel sure that in time they’ll all find their way here and give us the opportunity of becoming reacquainted with them.

Few college papers carry an exchange column. Why not?

Surely an exchange column is of benefit to the paper itself and to other college papers. Through such a column one paper comes in closer contcat with other college papers. Through a mutual exchange of constructive criticism the college papers will be enabled to progress and avoid stagnation. One school is kept more alert and attentive to the ideas, opinions, and activities of other schools.

The graduation number of the Concordia Comet, the quarterly of Concordia College, St. Paul, is a revelation of what a quarterly can be. It is fairly complete and of great interest even to an out­ sider ” :how much more interesting it must be to the ‘‘Concordians.

Jo say more would be superfluous. We have no criticism to offer.

The Wheaton Record of Wheaton, Illinois, is a paper slightly above the average in interest. Probably the fact that, as a rule, it has an unusually complete editorial column does much to make it of common interest. The write-up “Speed On” in the June 6 numbe’r, however, is too softly sentimental to have any appeal at all.

It’s always better to avoid or trim down such extravagant emotion­ al articles.

Student Life, the official organ of Northland College, Ashland, Wis., is the kind of paper that one feels tempted to style, a peppy 122

little sheet.” It is brief but lively. Its main characteristic is its compactness. Superfluities are repressed. The article "College Friendships” in the June 4 issue was excellent.

Probably many of us have been sporadically interested in the proposed universal language. The "Daily Cardinal” reports that on July 8 a sermon in Esperanto, the international tongue, was scheduled to be held in Madison before the Esperanto Association of North America.

In the “Capital Chimes” we find an item of especial interest to us, since it concerns a former fellow-student. A1 Kauber was chosen as the one most worthy of receiving the Berea Boots. The Berca Boots have been surrounded with strong athletic traditions. For years it has been the custom to present the boots to Capital's out­ standing athlete to keep until his athletic prowess has been sur­ passed by another.

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We have now recounted our losses. What have we left around which we can huikl a winning team ? Kettenacker, a favorite with the spectators, will undoubtedly play fullback. He is not very re­ liable in backing up the line but may improve this year. Although he possesses a terrific drive, his charges are often blind. A. Sauer and Martin, both with plenty of speed and weight, will probably play left and right half respectively. Schwerin and Fritze will al­ ternate with them. Fritze, whose ill health kept him from doing his best in the past year, is a good punter and has the most ex­ perience in the backfield. Stuhr of Winona High, Krier of the local high school, and Roehl of Lake Mills are our prospective quarterbacks. Our giant Leerssen, though formerly inclined to laziness, will, we expect, with the added responsibility, devolving on him as captain, play bis best' season this year at center. As guards Hcrgfckl, Kbcrharl, Engel, and Baumann are outstanding.

Schaefer, P. Sauer, Sch'veppe, and Paustian aspire to a position at tackle. Finding ends is a difficult problem. Besides Hammen, excaptain of '26 and ’27, Coach Eickmann has Rutz, Blumenthal, and 'Heyn to fill this position.

The following schedule has been arranged: September 29—Carroll here October 6—Beloit here .

October 13—Ri])on at Ripon October 19—Milton here November 3—Wisconsin B. Team here November 16"—Lawrence at Appleton November 17一Lake Forest at Lake Forest This schedule is the hardest vve have had in years. We have some good though largely inexperienced material to pick a squad fro.in. Coach Eickmann is handicapped by a lack of time and coaching assistance, The experienced players are being called on to help teach the newcomers the fundamentals rather than receiving additional coaching themselves. This last fact together with the short time allotted for practice makes it impossible to attain perfect teamwork at as early a date as our opponents. We do not, however, ask favors of our opponents, I have heard of a certain proverbial “fighting spirit,” which Northwestern is said to have shown in times past. It has been sadly lacking in recent years.

Our teams were only too prone to become discouraged and “lie do'vn on the job” after the first reverse. May they this fall be ani­ mated with a different spirit.

We do not attempt to foretell a successful year. Such proph­ ecies in the previous years have usually sounded hollow and half124

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The building received its quota of improvements during the summer. One which the erratic student will especially appreciate is the new steps in the old building. They go all the way up to third floor, and, what concerns us very much, are guaranteed not to creak. The installation of new boilers promises to be a decided improvement. Whether that promise is going to come true remains to be seen, and we hope for the best. Noteworthy also is the fact that the sidewalk has been raised at that conspicuous place where it is low. Those who did not see the walk before it was brought up with thq rest of the world may not be able to understand that the raising of those two cement blocks was a really noble art. But ’tis so.—Then too the interior of the building received its usual coat of paint, varnish, floor oil, and so on. There is still a ques­ tion whether A. V. }28 is A. Voight ’28 or A. Voges ’28. But this ambiguous bit of would-be information is all we have to offer concerning the identity of those who painted in the building.

Only a few students discontinued their work. The seniors lost their class president. Timmel intends to continue his studies at the University of Wisconsin. The seniors elected vice-president Hammen president, made Sachs vice-president, and selected Norbert Paustian to fill the office of secretary, which Sach’s promotion left vacant. The office of band president, also left vacant by Tim­ mel was filled l)y the election of Mr. Harold Warlike of Kingston, 125

mel, was filled by the election of Mr. Harold Warnke of Kingston, statement: “We look forward to a big year with the band. We are having regular rehearsals at present, although of course they are curtailed to forty-five minutes during football season. T’一 going to try to show my gratitude to the band for the confidence they have shown in me by taking them home for a chicken dinner.

The event will take place about September 30.”

Larson is the only one missing from the junior class. It is re­ ported that he is going into the automobile industry. Walter Nessler ’31 is also discontinuing his work at Northwestern and is work­ ing in Milwaukee.

The studcMits of our worthy alma mater occupied themselves m various ways during the summer weeks. Some plied the shovel 011 the railroad; others canned peas. Vater had a good vacation.

He was kept busy dodging- the number thirteen, for in no less than five different connections did the unlucky digit approach him. Koeh­ ler and Siegler threw themselves upon the mercy of autoists for two weeks and went to Wyoming and back. Alfred Sauer worked in Yellowstone Park during the summer and returned a week late.

Reuschel also rciurncd a week late. Vic Schultz acquired an al­ most perfect head of blond hair. He insists he got it by working 011 a farm.

It is with sincere regret and genuine sympathy withJiis par­ ents and relatives that \vc announce the death of Arnold Dobratz.

Dobratz was a member of the Sexta class during the first semester of the past school year. About the first of February he left for his home in Concord, Wisconsin. His death, due to heart trouble and innanimatory rheumatism, came on August 19.

Kasper claims for himself the distinction of being the first of the year to be confined to the sick room. But he considers it the best place at college to get over a cold: and by far the majority of students agree with him.

Although this column is not given over to advertisement, we might say this : When in Watertown，stop and gas with “Konks” Engel and “】ack” Dahlke—at the sharp corner.

After three months of guerilla warfare in the strike at Ken­ osha, Buenger finds classes and life in the dormitory very quiet.

He even prefers to be awakened by the tutor at 6:14 A. M. rather than by a well hurled brick shattering the glass in his bedroom window. .

The new students are becoming accustomed to their surround­ ings. A certain Freshman made a disheartening discovery in the reading room. He looked at every periodical he could find there and finally asked, “Haven’t they got the College Humor here?”

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The joyous summer vacation culminated on that morning. Stu­ dents who had been enrolled the previous year were eager to return.

Old classmates renewed acquaintances, which had suffered just a little from the usual separations that vacation brings. We who were accustomed to former associations unwillingly acknowledged an absence of familiar faces. However, we rejoiced to welcome the many newcomers. 一 The enrollment of Freshmen Co-eds is approximately that of last year. Ruth Belliing, Jane Carroll, Jeanette Glaus, Catherine Gormley, Laura Lueck，and Mildred Volkman are the Freshmen members of the collegiate body. The Sextaners in the preparatory department form a large group of fourteen. Because many form­ er students did not return, the enrollment is not so large as it was last year. Alice Kuhnke, who was graduated from the preparatory department, obtained a position as teacher in Michigan. We wish her the best of success.

Gertrude Thurow, who was teaching at Cudahy, Wis., was transferred to Waterloo, Wis. Gertrude Mueller ex. ’2合 has a pos­ ition as teacher at De Pere.

Several students who have not returned are continuing" their studies elsewhere. Lenore Gewecke and Lee Zoelle will enter the Univrsity of Wisconsin this year. Emma Timmel, a former stu­ dent, is in training at a Milwaukee hospital. Mully Mutchler has a position in Milwaukee.

Those who have succumbed to the proverbial darts during the past few months are Linda Nowack ex. ’29, who married Mr. Tidd of this city, and Bertha Holzheuter ex. '27, who was married to Mr. Elmer Draeger, August 18. They are living in Waterloo, Leone Riedelbach and Mr. Erhardt Oestreich were married Labor Day_.

They are making their home in Watertown. Ruth Bolle ex. }2S was married to Mr. Walter Scheckner, September 15. They will reside in Milwaukee.

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Here we arc back at the laborious work of writing the joke column. We never knew what Harvey T. Woodruff meant with the “Help! Help!" in his “Wake,” but we found out after we started to write this column. l,Fal" Scliewe: (at 9:12, after a half-hour’s visit) Well, I guess I’ll go up now and get ready for 9:15.

THE BATTER Ten thousand eyes were on him While he rubbed his hand with dirt; Five hundred laundry-men all cheered As he wiped them on his shirt. 氺 本 * An elderly gentleman stepped to the stand of a fruit-vender and inquired : "Sprechen sie Deutsch?”

“Twenty cents a basket” was the prompt reply.

I eat my peas with honey, I’ve done it. all my life: They do taste kind of funny, But it keeps them on the knife.

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It was two o’clock in the morning. On a well-lighted street corner. A man was on his knees busily looking for something. A policeman stepped up to him and asked: “Are you looking for something ?"

“Yes，for a ten-dollar bill?” came the answer in a voice that allowed for no doubt as to the man’s intoxicated condition.

“Are you sure you lost it on this corner?”

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Raff: “Why don't you report it to the slieriiT? Piff: “He’s the one who took it.” * 氺 * Lives of great men all remind us.

As their pages o’er we turn, That we’re apt to leave behind us, Letters that we ought to burn. 氺 * 氺 Prof: “What did Croesus say on his funeral pyre?”

Rahn: “So long, so long. 氺 氺 氺 “Aren’t you afraid the birds will eat your seeds ? You ought to put up a scarecrow,” •，’Oh，it’s not worth it. There’s always one of us in the garden. 木 氺 * Schoolmaster: “Now I want you to tell me which of those words are singular and which are plural. Tomkins, you take the first.一trousers.”

Tomkins:丨_(after deliberation) “Singular at the top and plural lower down, sir. * 氺 氺 Suspicious Husband: “Who called this afternoon?”

His wife: Only Aunt Sophie.'

S. H•: “Well, she left her pipe. * 氺 氺 the way, after my earnest appeal for contributions to this column，all I have received so far is one solitary joke. Whenever I walk through the halls or on the campus and see all your intelli­ gent faces, I cannot help feeling- that, were all the jokes recorded tjiat occur every day, my column would swell to immense propor­ tions.

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THOMAS PAINE Thomas Paine was born in Thetford, Norfolk county, Eng­ land, January 29, 1737. His father was a staymaker by trade and a Quaker until he was banned from that sect on account of his marriage to an Episcopal girl, but although banned he still lived the life of a Quaker. At the age of eight Tom was sent to a grammar school in Thetford, but he took little interest in Latin.

In fact, in four years he hardly mastered the fundamentals al­ though he made fairly satisfactory progress in other branches.

During his boyhood he showed little of the genius, but he began early to do independent thinking. When he was seven or eight years old, one of his relatives, an enthusiastic Episcopalian, read to him a sermon on salvation through Christ, and although Tom did not make any remarks he had his own thoughts and doubts concerning the matter. At the age of thirteen he was taken from school and put to work to learn the staymaking trade. When he was sixteen, the wanderlust seized him and he went to London.

I*} a strange city he was without friends and money and after some difficulty found work for a short time. He then went to Dover, where he again worked as a staymaker, but the desire for adventure had not been stilled. The glowing tales of the sea which his teacher at Thetford had told induced him to join a freebooter which 130

was about to set out for war against France. But his father, who as a Quaker abhorred war, begged him to give up the plan. He did, but not long afterward joined another freebooter and made a short voyage. But the hardships he endured dulled the appeal of the sea and he soon returned. From 1757 to 1759 he plied his trade in London and then established himself at Sandwich, Kent.

In 1760 he married the daughter of a custom-house officer, but his wife died the next year. ^ # After the death of his wife he entered the excise service in London. After four years he was discharged for neglect of dutyIt was alleged that he had neglected to perform certain duties which he testified he had performed. His petition for reinstate­ ment was granted the next year, but he did not take up his duties until 1768, supporting himself during the intervening two years by teaching school in London. During his leisure hours he studied the sciences and spent some time attending lectures on philosophy.

He made a few attempts at poetry, but the more he studied practical subjects, the more he feared that a life given over to poetry would lead him away from reality. If his means had alio wed it, ^ it is probable that he would have made mathematics and its appli­ cation to mechanical principles his life’s work. In 1768 he again took a position as exciseman in Lewes, Sussex. There he lived at the house of a tobacconist and after the latter's death took over the business and married his daughter. In 1772 he wrote a pamph­ let pleading for a raise of salary for the exciseman. He spoke in sharp terms of the evils which must result from the poverty of these people. In 1774 Paine was again discharged from the excise service. His superiors held that as a tobacconist he was too apt to be tempted to smuggle goods. Apparently the pamphlet he had written, showing the bribery and underhand methods of ex­ cisemen, rankled in their minds. The provocation upon which he discharged was that he was absent from his duty without per­ mission, having left in order to escape his creditors. Soon after­ ward he separated from his wife. Many of his friends made very bitter remarks about this conduct, and Paine stated in several news­ papers that in his opinion it was better to be divorced than to live \vith a woman in continual strife. The real reason for the separa­ tion never came to light, but when Paine spoke of his wife, it was always with the highest regard. .Since Paine had no prospect of being' again employed as exciseman, he went to London and worked as a copyist for a time.

At the. house of his friend, Davis Williams, he met Benjamin Franklin, whom the colonies had sent to England to patch up some kind of peace with the mother country. Franklin took a great liking to the man and persuaded him to go to America. He gave _ him letters of introduction to his son-in-law, Richard Bache, and 131

Paine landed in America late in November, 1774. Paine thoug'ht of establishing a girl’s school, but Mr. Robert Aitkin, to whom Mr. Bache had in turn introduced him, made him editor of “The Penn­ sylvania Magazine/1 which he was about to publish. As editor of this magazine Paine did good work, and many recognized Paine’s genius. He won much favor in 1775 by writing against slavery.

On January 10, 1775, appeared anonymously what is probably Paines best known work, “Common Sense.’’ At a time when the greatest of the American patriots considered very thoughtfully what kind of remarks they made about separation from England, Paine came out openly for a declaration of independence. In “Common Sense” lie held that any government was at best a necessary evil; that the position of the colonies, maintaining that they were loyal subjects but at the same time in open rebellion, was inconsis­ tent ;and that their best course was to declare themselves free from the British crown. Over one hundred thousand copies were denianded, a circulation equivalent to over four million in our pres­ ent population. In Paine's own words, “the success it met with was beyond anything since the invention of printing” and “the Declaration of Independence followed as soon as 'Common Sense* could be spread through such an extensive country.”

Five months later, when the colonies declared independence, Paine, joined the army as aide-de-camp to General Greene. His experience in the ranks was brief, but it gave “The Crisis” so much more appeal. “The Crisis” was a series of sixteen pamphlets which Paine published from 1776 to 1783. Whenever the soldiers or the people of the United States lost enthusiasm, Paine published another number of “The Crisis.” These pamphlets, the first of which beg^n with the well-known words, “These are the times that try lien’s souls,” contain some of the finest literary gems in the Eng­ lish language. Early in 1777 Paine was sent by Congress as sec­ retary of the commission to treat with the Indians at Easton, Penn­ sylvania. In April lie was elected secretary of the Congressional Committee on Foreign Affairs blit was forced to resign in 1779 because he had misused his office.

In 1780, when Washington was very much in need of tunas, Paine wrote an impressive letter, enclosing the five hundred dol­ lars he received as a year’s salary as clerk of the Pennsylvania As­ sembly, and started a subscription fund to feed Washington^ The total sum subscribed amounted to over- a million and a half dollars. The next year he went to France to engage help and was again very successful.

Toward the end of the war Paine lived in limited circunistances in Philadelphia. His repeated refusal, in consonance with the theory of the Quaker preacher that it was wrong .to accept pay for services to his country, to accept any remuneratiejn for the work 132

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he did in keeping up the morale of the country, did not keep him from doing the best he was able for the United States. After the war Pennsylvania made him a gift of five hundred pounds sterling; New Jersey gave him a small estate; and New York gave him a confiscated Tory farm at New Rochelle, comprising two hundred and eighty-eight acres. Congress voted him three thousand dol­ lars.

This money took care of his financial difficulties and from 1783 lo 1787 he lived mostly in Philadelphia. He applied himself to the sciences, which seem to have been the usual avocation of the gentleman of that time. The result was that he built an iron bridge of one arch, the principle being suggested to him by the construc­ tion of the spiderweb. In 1787 he took his model to France and exhibited it at the Academy of Sciences in Paris. But France was already interested in the impending revolution and had no time to concern itself with bridges. He then went to England where he was lionized. But he brought himself into odium by attacking Burke’s “Reflections on the French Revolution,” Although Paine had been a good friend of Burke’s, lie attacked him with vigor and accused him of ignorance, prejudice, and blind partisanship. Burke had made some rather cynical remarks on the revolution in France, hinting that a revolution of that kind was much below England, but that in France it was probably necessary, because the French form of government was very much inferior to that of Great Bri­ tain. Paine* showed that the English government resembled that of France. The book, “The Rights of Man” consists of two parts, the first of which appeared in 1791. The printer whom he engaged to publish the work found in it on reperusal certain statements which he hesitated to print and Paine engaged another printer.

The book was outlawed and the government attempted to arrest its author, but he escaped to France.

Hooted and jeered at when he sailed from Dover, he was re­ ceived with acclaim when he landed at Calais. His stay in France 'ya.s brilliant, but Paine was already on the down grade in life. Re­ ligiously and intellectually he was a child of the French Revolution.

From France appeared the second part of “The Rights of Man/' ^The British government attempted to stop the publication by offering t? buy the copyright, but Paine learned of the plan and insisted on printing the book. The authorities did succeed, however, in delaying the appearance of the book until after certain measures had been passed modifying tax laws, which Paine had attacked most vehemently.

T In the Convention Paine spoke and voted against killing Louis XVI and even suggested the United States as a place to imprison the monarcji, but he did not succeed in saving the king’s life. When the Girondists .fell from power, Paine was ejected from the Con133

vention oil the ground that he was a foreigner. Just before he was committed to the Luxembourg prison, December 28，1893, he gave out the first part of “The Age of Reason.” His vicious attack on the Bible in this book, though it has the shrewdness and force char­ acteristic of all his writings, is unscholarly. During his imprison­ ment he worked on the second part. Paine barely escaped being" guillotined. It was the custom to mark the doors of the cells in which were those who were to be executed. Now the door of Paine’s cell opened flat against the wall and happened to be so opened when it was marked. When the executioners returned in the evening to lead out the victims, the door was closed, and the mark then being on the inside, they passed by. Although the error was later discovered, Paine was nevertheless allowed to remain in prison, for he soon afterward fell very ill and it was thought that he did not have long to live. He escaped from the Luxem­ bourg, November 4, 1794, through the efforts of his good friend James Monroe, who was then the United States minister to France.

The final pages of “The Age of Reason” were written in Monroe’s home in Paris.

Soon afterward he made a bitter attack on Washinngton, accusing him with inexcusable bitterness of having been indifferent to his imprisonment. 、Later, when Napoleon became inebriated with his own power, Paine was only too glad to leave France. Thomas Jefferson ranged to secure his passage on a warship, because England had set a price of eight thousand pounds on his capture. Paine landed in America, October 30, 1802. Although his services during the American revolution were in general gratefully remembered, his at­ tack on Washington had aroused much bitterness and “The Age of Reason” had lost for him the kindly regard of the religious peopie. He F lived on his estates in New Jersey and New York. But during the last years of his life he was lonely . and \yretched and broken in health. He died in New York, June 8, 1809, and was buried at New Rochelle. .

As for a characterization of Paine and his writings much is said in the words: “The real John-Bull spirit of antagonism was in him.” He was a true Englishman, as Corbett styles, him. He was clear-headed, consistent, and always desperately in earnest.

He was blessed with a memory so keen that he could repeat at will any part of his writings. He wrote on almost every subject one can think of, for his knowledge was universal. His works are written in simple though excellent English and they appealed very strongly to the people. In an age when public opinion in America was practically controlled by papers, Paine was the foremost pamphleteer. But whether he was in America or Europe, he fought for principles as he saw them and would not retreat one step from 134

his conviction of right. Although he was somewhat irritable and when moved showed roughness of manner, he was a gentleman to the heart, and "took off his coat only when compelled to fight it out.”

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Obgleich der Stoff, den Hebbel als Quelle luer sein Drama “Agnes Bernauer，’ gebrauchte, zu eineni Drama wohl geeignet war, und etliche Dichter bereits versucht hatten, daraus ein Drama zu gestalten, war es ihnen niislungen. Die Idee, die sie in ihren Dramen ausfuehrten, war unvollstaendig und hatte keinen rechten Wertgehalt. Hebbel legte in seinem Drama eiiie ganz andere Idee zugrunde, welche die andern Dichter uebersehen hatten : naemlich den Patriotismus. Um zu sehen, in welchem Verhaeltnis die Idee von Hebbels “Agnes Bernauer” zu den Prinzipienfragen steht, die Deutschland 1848 bewegten, muss man den Zustand im deutschen Reiche zu dieser Zeit einigermassen kennen. . .

Es waren die Nachwehen der franzoesischen Revolution in Deutschland, und wo dem politischen Fortschritt, in dem Worte “liberal” verkoerpert.gehuldigt wurde, da nahm man sich ein Vorbild an den franzoesischen Liberalen, deren Idccn in Suedcleutochland massgebend waren. Sie betonten die Rechte des Buergers, waehrend die andern in den Gelehrtenkreisen und Fuerstenkreisen ein Nationalgefuehl ihren politischen Anschauungen gemaess hat­ ten. Solche redeten von den Rechten des Koenigs. Wie steht es aber mit den Pflichten ? Hat nicht der einzelne Pflichten gegenueber der Gesamtheit, dem Staat, sowohl der Buerger als aucli der Fuerst?

Da sagt Hebbel: Es ist hier das Verhaeltnis des Individuunis zur Gesellschaft dargestellt und demgemaess an zwei Charakteren, der eine yon der hoechsten Region, der andere von der niedrigsten, anschaulich gemacht, dass das Individuum, wie herrlich und gross, wie edel und schoen es auch immer sei, sich der Gesellschaft unter ^llen Umstaenden beugen muss. Denn in der Gesellschaft und in lhrem formalen Ausdruck, dem Staat, lebt die ganze MenschlichIndividuum aber kommt nur eine einzelne Seite der Menschlichkeit zur Entfaltung. Das ist eine ernste, bittere Lelire， tu?r welche man von dem hohlen Demokratismus in dieser Zeit Keinen Dank erwarten soli. ,hat den Stoff gerade so fuer sein Drama angeordnet, class die Stellung des Individuunis zum Staat klar zum Ausdruck 135

kommt.—Als der junge Herzog Albrecht nach Augsburg ging, um sich dort an einem Turnier zu beteiligen, traf er Agnes Bernauer, eine wunderschoene Baderstochter. Er verliebte sich in sie und gegen den Willen seines Vaters, des Herzogs Ernst von Bayern, und trotz aller Warnungen seiner Begleiter, die auch den politischen Zustand des Landes wohl kannten,. heiratete er sie. Bayern war ja (lurch das arge I-Iandeln und Regieren seiner vorigen Herrscher in drei Teile zerrissen. Nun aber waren die Verhaeltnisse durch die weise Politik des Herzogs Ernst so weit gefoerdert, class er diese Landschaftcn vcreinigen konnte, wenn sein Sohn die Prinzessin von Braunschweig heiratete. Ernst hielt folglich um diese, bekanntlich die schoenste, Prinzessin Deutschlands fuer seinen Sohn Albrecht an, und der Fuerst von Braunschweig willigte ein.

Als Folge clieser Vereinigung wuerde clie Zwietracht und der Streit, zum groessten Teil wenigstens, ein ersehntes Ende finden.

Denn wie die Sadie gcrade jetzt stand, konnte zu irgendeiner Zeit eine Rebellion ausbrechen. Kostbare Leben standen taeglich in der groessten Gefahr, und unschuldiges Blut muesste im Fall eines Buergerkriegcs vergosscn werden. Der Staat hatte nur diese Hoffnung auf Rettung nacmlich class der junge Herzog durch seine Heirat Frieden bringen wuerde.

Albrecht war aber eine Person, die sich durch solche Staatsangelegenheiten, die ihm nur Kleinigkciten zu sein schienen, nicht stoercn Hess. Denn nachdem er die wunderschoene Agnes Bernauer gesehen halte, liess er die Graefin von Wuertemberg, die er auch einmal aus polilischen Gruenden heiraten sollte, entfuehren.

'Vie es aber dem Volk, ueber das er spaeter herrschen sollte, dabei kuemmcrte ilin nicht im geringsten. Fuer ihn war der Staat ein abstraktes Ding mit nur geringer Bedeutung.

Wir kiennen ihn trotzdem keiner moralischen Schuld anklagen, denn er betonte als Individuum sein Mannesrecht und gedachte zu heiraten, wen auch immer er wollte. Und das war in diesem Falle die Agnes Bernauer. Doch vergass er dabei, dass er m seiner Stellung- verpflichtet war, sich um sein Volk zu bersorgen.

Wenn er ihm helfen konnte, wie jetzt sich eine Gelegenheit darbot, so war es seine heilige Pflicht, wenn noetig, auch sein Allerliebstes aufzuopfern. Das konnte er nicht begreifen. Er stellte seine Liebe, durch die er an Agnes gefesselt war, hoeher als den Staat.

Man muss auch beachten, dass bei Agnes noch viel weniger moralische Schuld vorliegt als bei Albrecht. Sie hat ihn nicht mit List zu ihrem eignen Vorteil gewonnen. Nein, eher wollte sie ins Kloster treten als Unheil und Zwietracht anrichten. Sie warf Aldiesem Falle Agnes Bernauer. Doch vergass er dabei, dass er waehrend des Turniers vemngluecken koennte. Er sah sie in dem Augenblick und wegen ihrer Schoenheit, die ihr den Namen “Engel： von Augsburg” erwarb, entflammte er in heisser Liebe zu ihr.

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I lire Schuld bestand nur darin, (lass sie ihn durch ihre Schoenheit an sich zog und in reiner Liebe festhielt.

Weil Albrecht Agnes heimlich heiratete, geriet Herzog Ernst in einen schwierigen Konflikl. Heikle Situationen stellten sicli eiii. Er hatte ja (lie Einwilligung (les Fuersten von Braunschweig bekommen.

Diese jetzige Ehe mit Agnes wuercle (lie grundlose Feindschaft zvvischen ihm unci Ernst in eine begruendete verwandeln und das Reich um so mehr erschuettern. Der Herzog suchte einen Aus'ye^ďź&#x161; und fand ihn. darin, class er Albrecht enterbte und sein Enkelkind Adolf zum herzoglichen Erben ernannte. Wie weh es ihm auch ward, Herzog Ernst musste so handeln : denn niemals konnte er Agnes trotz ihrer Schoenheit als Herzogin anerkennen. Das wuerde Revolution bedeuten, die schon lange drohte und nun irgendeinen Tag zum Ausbruch komnien konnte. Denn auch der Adel wuerde zum groessten Teil Agnes nicht anerkennen. Aber Herzog Ernsts Bemuehungen waren vergeblich, wie es schien, denn der schwache Adolf starb bald darauf, und das Herzogtum war abermals ohne Erben. Was sollte der alte Herzog nun tun ? Sein Kanzler Preising riet, dass man Agnes heimlich entfuehre, und sie dann in ein Kloster verstecke. Aber der ehrliche Ernst liess solches nicht zÂŤ, class sein Sohn in scheinbar ehrlicher Ehe leben sollte, waehrend seine vorige Braut am Leben waere. Dem Ludwig von Ingolstadt, in dessen Adern das Blut der herzoglichen Familie gerade so rein wie in den Adern Ernsts floss, konnte er keineswegs die Herrschaft ueberlassen, ebensowenig dem Heinrich von Landshut. Denn beide lauerten schon laengst clem Herzog auf und wollten sein Reich verschlingen. Auch wuerden sie sich gegenseitig bekaempfen und das hiesse wiederum Buergerkrieg. lhnen kam es nicht auf das Wohl des Volkes an. Es blieb ihm also nur ein schrecklicher Aus'yeg.

Er musste Agnes aufopfern, und so zoegerte er nicht lange, seinen Beschluss auszufuehren. Er liess Agnes waehrend der Abwesendheit Albrechts gefangen nehmen und von einer Bruecke in die die Donau stuerzen. Die Richter, die sie verurteilten, gaben in dem Todesurteil ihren Grund an : Sie haette die Ordnung der Welt gestoert, Vater und Sohn entzweit, dem Volke seinen Fuersten entfremdet, einen Zustand herbeigefuehrt, in clem nicht mehr nach Schuld und Unschuld nur noch nach Ursach5 und Wirkung1 gefragt werden koenne. Alles das habe sie verbrochen ihrer reinen Lielje 'vegen! Albrecht hielt das fuer unmoeglich und wurde wuetend, verheerte das Land mit den Seinen und toetete ruecksichstlos, was in seinen Weg kam. Einen abscheulichen Mord nannte er es.

Und nicht bis er mit seinem Vater, den er gefangen genommen, in ein 'tiefernstes Gespraech ueber die Zustaende im Staat und ueber die einzige Weise, die Lage zu bessern, kam, sah er ein, dass es so geschehen musste. Seine Pflicht gegen den Staat wurde ihm klar.

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Ernst hat seine Tat auch schwer gebuesst. Er legte sein Amt nieder unci zog in ein Kloster, nachdem er Albrechts Weib mit hocchsten Ehren bestatten Hess. Der versoehnte Albrecht wurde wieder eingesetzt und herrschte vveiter an der Stelle seines Vaters.

Aber die Idee, class er clem Staat nichts schuldig sei, war in ihm ausgeloescht. Das eben wollte Hebbel zeigen, dass der Staat kein abstraktes Ungeheuer ist das alles verschlingt und bluehendes Leben vernichtet, sondcrn dass er ein lebensvoller organismus ist voll sittlicher Kraft. Bedeutende Maenner stellen ihre besten Kraefte in seinen Dienst. Ein solcher Staat, meint Hebbel, darf auch wieder vom einzelnen ein Opfer fordern, selbst wenn es in der schrecklichsten Gestalt, wic es in cliesem Drama geschieht, ihm abverlangt werclen sollte.

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The staff really is laboring under some very disagreeable con­ ditions. The editor deeply appreciates the sacrificial and self de­ nying support of the staff members and many of our readers. But there are still many who neither realize that the Black and Red is their paper nor feel due responsibility to an institution so vital in our school life. There are a few students who gladly write when­ ever they are asked to, but there are many more who do not even exert, themselves to the extent of “trying.” They think, “What’s the use? Why bother?s, These indolent individuals surely feel no responsibility nor any sense of loyalty toward their school and its publication. Others are not so outspoken. They “surely 139

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would” but they ‘’have no time just now. In some cases we realize that there is much truth in the remark, but in others we see only thoughtless unconcern, listless indifference, and a lame excuse to avoid some work. Our column editors are receiving no cooperation from many of the students, no material has been volun­ tarily submitted by the students, many have offered a weak excuse for not writing, and several promised articles have not been handed in. Surely, this is a concrete example of intellectual indolence. It reveals a serious lack of enthusiastic interest and of that very nec­ essary spirit of co-operation toward the paper.

The greatly offended student now asks, “What’s the staff there for?” The staff is the servant of the student body. It carries the principal burden of publishing the college paper, and it certainly is justified in expecting your co-operation. The paper is published by (he students, and your contributions are not merely favors to­ ward the staff. They arc •Sfreatly appreciated, but primarily they are the fulfillment of your duty toward your college paper.

H. PHYSICAL LETHARGY The modern age is a health-seeking one. Man now realizes as never before that a general care of the body, for the purpose of building it up and preserving it, is necessary if the work to be clone in this world is to be done efficiently. Every school in the United States, in fact every seboul in the world, has realized this fact, and nearly every one is using all means possible to bring its students to the knowledge that the attention they give to» their bodies is a duty to themselves.

The most obstruent obstacle which all these institutions must remove in order to bring their students to realization of the importance of their body’s welfare is the physical lethargy of the persons themselves. There are some who do not exert their bodies 111 the least until they are actually forced to it by some outward means. This physical laziness with which we must contend is a eater detriment in the path to success than most people think, causes in man a sluggish spirit, and this sluggishness places him in that state of body and mind which effects his own personal wel­ fare as well as his entire activity in regard to consideration and interest for the rest of the world. Lethargy hinders the progress of mankind as an anchor which the boatman fails to lift hinders the progress of the boat. It can not make any headway. Physical training, on the other hand, increases a bodily vigor and stamina and strengthens man to such an extent that he acquires a staying power, and stability, and a firmness which enables him to endure a prolonged mental strain. It also gives him the essential driving 140

power to perform his work thoroughly and efficiently if he is not suffering from mental idleness. The reader may think to himself, <rWell—what about Shelley, Lamb, Steinmetz, and others―weren’t they physically unfit and weak?” Yes, but here we are not speaking of geniuses but are merely taking into consideration the general run of man. If we consider some of these facts, we must come to the conclusion that bodily laziness is truly an enemy to be feared and combated.

Until this fall Northwestern as other schools also had its own specific manner of counteracting this enemy by means of military drill, but this movement declined so greatly in the last few years that, unless some very radical changes had been made, it would have been useless to attempt a restoration under student supervision, because the necessary interest was lacking. Our faculty is now doing its best to develop another movement to take its place and thereby give us a second opportunity.

W. P” ’30.

PHYSICAL DRILL Military drill at Northwestern has been repiaced by organized physical drill, compulsory for the entire student body excepting： only those who participate in the seasonal spoi l, and under the per­ sonal supervision of the athletic director. A schedule has been ar­ ranged which affords the collegiate department one period, the pre­ paratory students two three-quarter hour periods a week.

Since the movement is still in its infancy, the instructors have as yet chosen no definite plan of procedure. The exercises used in the opening period were taken from a group especially beneficial to the arms and shoulders. Outstanding among the arm exercises was the one commonly known as the “muscle-grinder,” in which one slowly raises and lowers the rigid body from a prone position to arm’s length. This is exceptionally strenuous after the third or fourth execution, since the entire weight of the body is supported by the triceps, the most neglected of the arm muscles.

There were also exercises used to strengthen the abdominal ?nd dorsal muscle-chains, one promoting correct and deep breath­ ing. and several for stretching and limbering the spine.

Later, when cold weather hinders open-air work, the instruc­ tors expect to organize a class in gymnastics, using the apparatus we have in our gymnasium. This sort of thing has not been taken up by organized classes for several years, although individuals have practiced it with success.

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and physical development, or a waste of time, depending entirely, of course, upon the student's willingness or unwillingness to apply himself.

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ALirMNI —Prof. John Eiselmeier, a graduate of our Normal Department in 1882, has returned from an extensive trip through Germany, Austria, and Italy. He is teaching at the I.ullieran High School at Milwaukee.

—On September 18, Martin Sprengling, Pli.D., *94, was seen at Northwestern. He has now been promoted i') n ' ull professorship in the department of Semitics at the University, o：' Chicago.

—On the same day Rev. Henry Koch, Ph.l)., CO, of Berlin, who crossed the sea for hymeneal purposes, called at -\orlhwestern while on his way to California.

—Rev. Gerhard Pieper, ’09，formerly at Bavaljoo, Wisconsin, was installed as pastor in the St. Peter’s Congregation at Fond dn Lac, on the seventh of October.

—Rev, H. Meibohm，’96, of Rockford, Minnesota, who was pre­ viously director at Luther College, New Orleans, resumed his work in the South by accepting a call to Immanuel College, Greenboro, North Carolina. He will be a colleague of Prof. Walter Beck,，19.

—Rev. William Eggert, '07, of Wausau, has accepted a call as assistant pastor to the St. Mark’s congregation of Watertown.

—Prof. Walter Thrun，ex ’12，formerly at the Mississippi Agri­ cultural College is now teaching Bacteriology at Valparaiso. His brother Martin Thrun, ex '17, is Professor of Economics at William and Mary. 一The Silver Wedding Anniversary of Rev. and Mrs. Robert F. F. Wolff, ex *01, of Cambridge, was cordially observed by congTe143

gation, relatives and neighboring colleagues on Sunday, Septem­ ber ninth. Congratulating messages were received even from Ger­ many. 一Arthur Knispel, com. ’21，of Lincoln, Nebraska, and Miss Irene Schwartz, ex ’25, daughter of Rev. J. H. Schwartz, West Sa­ lem, were united in marriage on September 2. The young couple visited Rev. H. Schaller of Medford, while the Wisconsin River Valley Conference met in his congregation, -thus receiving the congratulations of many former schoolmates.

—Mr. Hugo von Rohr, ex ’92, who is engaged at the Brumder establishment in Milwaukee, has been a regular spectator of our football games. 一Rev. Waller Krenke, ’22, who has served the congregation at McIntosh, South Dakota, during the past three years, has accepted a call to a Nebraska congregation.

—Rev. Im. BoettchcT, 21, of Merrill, has accepted a call to Sugar Bush near New London.

—On June 17, Rev. Venus Winter, ’23, of Martin, South Dakota, was married to Miss ' »!ia Winters.

—We announce vli<? !：ii th of a son to Rev. and Mrs. Egbert Schallcr, *23"; of Tpswich, Scmh Dakota; of a daughter to Rev. and Mrs. W. T. Meier, 'IS, \\ a<. vto\vn, South Dakota.

—Rev. G. O. Krause, '22, and wife, of Tomahawk, Wis” called at Northwestern in tlic earlier part of September, and extended con­ solations to Tutor "W. Kleinke, f24. 一Harold Clem, who entered with the thirty-two class, witnessed our Beloit game on October 6. He is doing drafting work at the Kissel corporation of Hartford, Wisconsin.

—Arlan Anhalt, ex '30, visited with his former classmates, Herman Pape and Lewis Bleichwehl on October 7.

—Martin Zilz, '28, limil Kasischke, '28, and Arnold Voigt, ’28， of Wauwatosa, have made weekend visits to Watertown with scru­ pulous regularity.

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參pmitmrg NoIpb Reden ist Silber; Schweigen ist Gold，’ soil ein englishes Sprichwort lauten (was bedeuten soil, class die Englaender das gekoined haben). Mit diesem Sprichwort sei deen auch die Nutzanwendung angedeutet, warum die Seminary Notes sich in der neusten Zeit des Schweigens so sehr befleissigt haben. Nun aber sind wir Obrigkeits halber gedrungen, wieder etwas Unsinn zu verzap fen und wenigstens deni Drucker das he1)en zu erheitern da(lurch dass er etwas von unserem Golde bekommt.

An Schreibgegenstaenden ist ja eigentlich bei uns auch kein_ Mangel, braucht man sich doch bloss die Gesichter der Subjekte _____ anzusehen, die uns umgeben. Schon die nackte appearance reg^t den Geist an. Da gibt es solche mit Flachs unler der Nase; es gibt Gesichter 'vie ein glattrasierter Schweinskopf anzusehen; ja, es gibt auch solche, die werden oben glatt; es gibt hier variatio ad in­ finitum. Die Geister, die in diesen Gesiclitern beschrieben sind, wollen wir nicht mehr beschreiben. Solche Subjekte haben wir nun dies Jahr lioch in vermehrter Zahl, naemlich einundfuenfzig' an der Zahl. Ihre Gesichter einzeln zu l^eschreiben, wuerde uns aber zu weit fuehren. Wir muessen uns davum die eklatautesten Beispiele auswaehlen. Nun sind cliese Herren aber dagegen; dass ihre weltgeschichtliche Bedeutung noch bei ihren Lebzeiten in Buecher eingebunden werde (Was bei ihnen die reine Bescheidenheit ist). Wen soil man da zuerst verewigen? Da werden wir wohl das Los enscheiden lassen muessen, und wen es trifft, den hat’s getroffen und er muss hier nun untergebracht werden.

Um der haeuslichen verwaltung und cles alten usus willen mussten wir wieder viele Beamten einsetzen, fast zuviele, denn %venn man vom Praeses hinab bis auf alle vergangenen und zukuenftig^n Dreckinspektoren rechnet, dann kommen sicher einundfuenfzigr raus und bleibt garkein mi sera plcbs uebrig als Regierungsobjekt.

Trotzdem war es noetig, die Verantwortlichkeit verschiedener Beamten sehr zu erhoehen. So hat, z. B., unser philosophisch angehauchter Blitzableiter (Nomina sunt odiosa) die Extraaufgabe, bei nachtschlafender Stunde von seimen erhobenen Gesichtspunkte aus die Spherenmusik zu belauschen und alle Noten schriftlich zu fixieren. Gespannt sind wir aber doch auf die Amtstreue dieses neupythagoraeischen Blitzableiters.

Lobenswert ist die Amtstreue unsei.es diminutiven Bimmlers, Johann Martin Zilz, gewesen, indem er sogar auch selbst seine • yerantwortlichkeit erhoeht hat. Er begnuegte sich nicht damit. jeden morgen seinen Lebenswecker in alien Schlafzimmern erschallen zu lassen, sondern laermte und rumorte auch heftig vor den 145

I ^Matk ^:Hell | verschlossenen Bibliothekstueren, um etwaige eingenickte Book­ worms zu resuscitieren.—Oder waere es denkbar, class der Bimmler sicli noch nicht genuegend orientiert hat in unseren Wards ?

\ ㈣狐财 Leaves whirling here and there, large and small, green leaves and bufT leaves and yellow leaves and orange leaves and red leaves; bare trunks with great knotly black branches tinted here and there with a dab of yellow foliage, the last moiety of what was myriads but a month 卞— The wind, the storm, the chill - rains and the frost have done their work. In the college park colors are vane., gated. It is as if a painter had become disgusted and m a anger splashed all of the colors on the palette and made one g L hodge-podge of it all. Among the many hues of yellow nses the dull green of the pines and spruce, in striking contrast to t e liant scarlet of the sumac. Barer and barer the cold whi ® buildings are thrust into view, the straggling ivy vines tailing to conceal their nakedness.

Following a decision of the college-board on Wednesday Oc^ tober the 10th, whereby Prof. E. Sauer s chair 二U plete revision of the schedule was necessitated. His colleagu take his classes. Professor Sitz has the Sophomore class m Ko^ man history, Prof. Schumann the Junior class a ⑽ Schmeling the Senior class in Sophocles. The Jui * t^e next will, however, have only Latin this semester an instructor Mr. Martin Franzmann，’28，has accepted a po 146

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Several years ago we had the opportunity to hear the United States Marine Band in the auditorium. It seems as if that over一一 ture from “William Tell,” in which we could hear the bells of the rams, the horns of the hunters and calls of the shepherds, ancl great­ est of all, the storm in the Alps, must still.ring in our ears.

On Thursday, October 18, the Navy Band will be here. There will be a programme in both afternoon ancl evening. We hope that we shall be as favorably impressed as we were with the former band. This organization was begun about six years ago, although first authorized by Congress in 1925, and placed under the leader­ ship of Lieutenant Chas. Benter. It consists of about sixty-two members, several of whom have studied under Old-World masters.

Our own college band has begun in good style again this year, looks quite promising and sounds so too. There is not a comer in the dormitory where the squeaks, groans, Hares, and thumps of some instrument have not found their way. Under its president.

Mr. Warlike, there is an enthusiastic membership of nearly fortyOn the thirtieth of September, twenty-five senior members an­ swered an invitation to furnish a concert at the festival of the dedi­ cation of Rev. T. Redlin’s new church at Kingston. They played in the afternoon. The people are reported to have enjoyed the music, ancl the boys the food.

Our military disease has finally disappeared and a new ancl bet­ ter system of gymnastic exercises for the different classes has been substituted. This work is clone from four o’clock until six o’clock， each class having its period under an instructor.

With the death of the half-hearted company, there is a strong feeling for new and more colorful band uniforms. A committee has been appointed to act, and catalogues have been secured. As yet no definite action has been taken. Plans for the raising of fund^ for the proposed innovations have not been revealed. The band is under the faculty supervision of Professor Westerhaus.

The mixed chorus also looks forward to a successful season, interest is wide-spread and attendance thus far has been good. Un­ der the faculty leadership of Professor Sitz are thirty-four members, including six bass and five tenor singers, nine altos and four­ teen sopranos.

The male chorus, with Professor Bolle directing, boasts of a large attendance this year. Of the fifty-two members thirty be147

long to the bass, and twenty-two to the tenor section. “Siberia,” a lament by Starke, is being studied and practiced at present. Ger­ hard Schaefer is president of this organization.

Now that the Freslinien in, the various colleges have been inir tiated, introduced, hazed, or what you will, and have become more or less orientated, the college papers are devoting less space to the many breaks of the tyros, the no doubt breathlessly exciting SophFrosh struggles, class rushes, etc., and are spreading the ever-ab­ sorbing topic of football all over tlieir pages. Interest seems very nearly equally divided between football and the presidential elec­ tion. The majority of colleges have held straw-votes. Many schools have organized “Hoover-Curtis” or “Smith-Robinson” Clubs.

A magazine from the far-away found its way l).ere ^ * namely, the Brown and Gold from South Australia. ,,, lends enchantment,” and this proved true in this cas^00,.t t=” even Without the added attraction of coming from turnn pans, this magazine would be very interesting. It is publisi J students of Concordia College, Adelaide, Australia. . 1 , servative but very much alive publication. Many pic u snap-shots add the finishing touches.

The students of Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pa” have in­ troduced a new idea towards bettering1 their monthly “Commenian.

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They are now putting out The College News, a bi-weekly, in addi­ tion to the “Commenian.” This new paper will be entirely devoted to news and activities on the campus, giving the “Commenian” the opportunity to concentrate purely on literary matter. This seems to be an excellent plan, and we wish them success. Probably few colleges could—or would take the trouble to—carry it out.

The Trumpet, of Centeral Wisconsin College,, Scandinavia, Wis., does not quite come up to the standard as a monthly paper.

One would judge it to be a weekly or at most a bi-weekly. Each department could stand considerable enlargement. The editorials that appeared in the September issue were sound and well-written.

The Royal Purple, of State Teachers College, Whitewater, Wis” a weekly issue, is fair. Its main {feature is jokes and jokes and yet more jokes. Fewer jokes and more i；ood editorials or a little more literary work would not be amiss.

ATDMftTS Carroll 40, Northwestern 0 Our hopes and confidence in success—though, we admit, the latter was really more voluble than sincere―were ground to dust 149

t under the feet of an eminently superior Carroll College team of' Waukesha. We were outclassed and outplayed and outweighed, I should say, by fifteen or twenty pounds per man, in every phase of the game. As usual, the Pioneers had a good passing attack; in fact, half of the touchdowns resulted directly or indirectly from an aerial game.

We shall not go into a detailed and tedious account of the man­ ner in which the nunufrous touchdowns were scored. This can only be of interest to Carroll students for whom this description is not primarily intended. Northwestern's greatest weakness seems to lie in the wingmen. Repeatedly our opponents would sweep around the ends for lons»- gains; one end run of fifty yards, the Carroll reporter says sixty-five yards, resulted directly in a "touchdown.

Onr pass defense is linrflly less reprehcnsi1)le.

We also feel called on to dole out our modicum of praise. We nominate Schaefer t.)，i‘c "Hall of Fame” for his outstanding of­ fensive and defensive piay. None of us are, however, surprised that he should do so \, eU. A man who put his heart and soul into the game, who report- \or practice at the beginning of the season and not in the second week, who does not go to Milwaukee, or pos­ sibly home, on weck-cinls instead of appearing on the gridiron, and who is out for practice at four o’clock sharp can not but do as well.

We fear some of his teaniniatcs are less exemplary in this respect.

Fritze played a good defensive game at half and end.

We enjoy observing the crowd. Carroll rooters accepted the victory as a matter oL course—past experience will justify them in assuming this attitude. When the tide turned against us, the half­ hearted response of our dejected students to the appeals of the cheer leaders can not but have acted as a drag to the already sink­ ing hopes of the team. Besides our crowd was at times anything but sportsmanlike, at the 与ame time exposing an obvious and pro­ found ignorance of the essentials of football. We quote an example. In the second half some kid” accidently or intentionally, as the case may be, let a ball roll out onto the field as a play came around that way. Bizer of Carroll immediately fell on it, and was most heartily “booed” for it. A good rule in football is to fall on or scoop up every loose ball; is it not? It is remarkable, though, how the spectators develop a propensity to criticise.

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The lineup was as follows: Carroll Northwestern Heyn, L. E. Rasmussen, L. E. Rasmussen, H.-L. T. Schaefer, L. T. Ruesch, L. G. Bergfeldt, L. G. West, C. Leerssen, C. Jentsch, R. G. Schultz, R. G. Ambrose, R. T. Schweppe, R. T. Rutz, R. E. Dugan, R. E. Masters, Q. Stuhr, Q. Bizcr, F. B. Haefner, F. B. Martin, L. H. Goerke, L. H. Fritze, R. H. Reagan, R. H. Officials: Radke, Referee; Stoddard, Umpire: Sheely, Head Linesman.

ATTENTION In the September issue of the Black and Red the date for the Wisconsin B team game was given as November 3. This game will, in accordance with a new agreement, taW. v.lace on the second.

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Beloit 20, Northwestern 0 On the fourth of October the varsity was defeated by a medi­ ocre Beloit team, a but ghostly reminiscence ot Tommy Mill’s pow­ erful squads. In spite of the optimistic prediction (or was it a lament?), heard on the sidelines during the Carroll game from none less than a student of Northwestern, that evidently Beloit would also beat us liy a score of forty to nothing，our team permitted the opponents to score but twenty points. I feel, and so do many oth­ ers, that we could have won. Coach Dickson's men simply outcharged our line and carried them off their feet. Northwestern's poor ta ckling, and not Beloit's excellent interference, accounted for most ofl their gains, Beloit received the kickoff and after a sustained drive of about we clearly eighty yards crossed the end line. In the second quarter___ . outplayed them, all but scoring a touchdown. In the second half the varsity was never within striking distance. On the very last play of the game a Beloit halfback intercepted Sauer’s pass and thus scored their last and only undeserved touchdown.

We note that the Beloit manager was most careful to make known (apparently to account for the small score) that two of their regular players were disabled and could not enter the contest. It may be of interest to know that we also have our casualities. Mar­ tin and Ketternacker, two of our best backfield men were disabled; 151

Schweppe, a tackle, left the sick room in time to watch the game; I-Iamnien, a veteran end, had only recently discarded his crutches.

In recounting the men who were incapacitated through injur­ ies we are not trying to explain the loss of the game. In former years it was customary to ascribe defeat to ill fortune. The “breaks” were ever against us. We shall avoid giving explanations.

The lineup : Beloit Northwestern Stipe, L. E. Heyn, L. E. Kimmel, L. T. Schaefer, L. T. Ellis, L. G. Bergfeldt, L. G. Germann, C. Leerssen, C. Fessler, R. G. Schultz, R. G. Kuick, R. T; Engel, R. T. Hobart, R. E. Rutz, R. E. Boher, Q. Stuhr, Q. Williams, L. H. Haefner, F. B. Thostenson, R. H. Sauer, A.-L. H. Johnson, F. B. Fritze, R. K. Officials: lineal, Referee; Radke, Umpire; Davis, Head Linesman.

Substitulions: 1. Sauer for Schultz: Martin for Fritze; Fritze for Heyn.

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I ，The Seniors helped Schaefer celebrate his birthday October 9.

The usual open-handed giving of the victim’s books, clothes, and whatever else of his personal belongings could be moved to the Senior Latin class was very liberal. The celebrators could not 152

quite lake “Jim’s” carpet, with which he recently furnished his room, to class and present him with it there. It might be niien-( tioned that Schaefer's is the only students’ room in the buildingwhich can boast of a carpet.

RESULTS OF THE BAND’S TRIP TO KINGSTON First, we must say that the band appreciated the royal treat­ ment they received at Kingston.

Kettenacker is still wondering how such a small place could serve so much chicken. Engel couldn’t keep up with him at all, but his failure might be explained by the fact that “Konks” won a box of candy. The fact that Professor Westerhaus informed the Seniors only the clay before the trip that America eats too much, did not keep him from eating three pieces of pie. Schultz took all honors by giving his appetite full coniniand and devoured―yes, devoured一six pieces of cake for dinner.

Neubert spent five clays after the trip in the sick room recov­ ering from a cold he had contracted two weeks before. very drowsy during For some unknown reason Bleichwehl the first piece the band played ancl also at other times during the ejay.

“Bandy” Siegler, who with Krueger went la Kingston the day before the band did, refused to make any statement, Kaspar and Warnke stopped overnight at Kingston after see­ ing the Ripon game, October 20.

William Phillips returned to his studies three weeks late. He stayed home to help celebrate the wedding of his sister.

Paul and Luther Schliesser have a flying squirrel as a pet. The curious little animal was caught in Illinois. And probably that explaiiis why a group of Sextaners went nut hunting, October 7.

—Professor Kowalke had the Seniors baffled on October 10.

The shiftin a Hebrew recitation from the third to the first period, which !e?tf the third period vacant and necessitated the drop­ ping of a religion recitation, left the Seniors’ schedule clear as mud.

The Seniors wore a bewildered look all day but it passed off when they finished their religion examination the next day. .October’s sick list included besides Neubert, Walter Koepsell, Fritze, Biesmann, Schweppe, and Vertz.

The band’s trip to Jefferson, on October 9, was canceled at the last minute. A meeting of the Jefferson business men made it inipossible for them to motor to Watertown and get the band.

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N. W. COLLEGE SENIORS ADOPT CANE TRADITION The public will no doubt have wondered why the Northwesand perhaps tern college boys are appearing uptown with canes, — the formality does need explanation.

"At many American and European colleges and universities it is an established custom that the senior class of the letters and science department, or of the school of classics, or as some have it, of the law school, wears a cane.

It is, then, as a symbol of distinction, and not, as is the cornmon belief, 'just another one of them thar collitch fads/ that the Senior class at Northwestern has adopted this age-old custom. And therefore, unseemly remarks thrown in the direction of the custom would really not clo justice to the world-knowledge and intelligence of a community as old and as large as is Watertown.”

There was also a movement under way to institute the Freshman green cap. Tlic Frosh made some negotiations with the Juniors, but since the Frosli were unwilling to wear a cap with a but­ ton, the Juniors refused to have anything to do with the matter, and it was fortunately dropped.

Two men are at present nursing broken arms. Kaye suffered the misfortune while exercising in the gym and Schmuckel broke bis arm playing football.

Returning from a recent trip to Brownsville, Eberhart and Martin broke down in Hustisford. Eberhart returned to Browns­ ville to get means of transportation farther, and Martin stayed in Hustisford. When lie was with suspicion regarded as a prohibi­ tion agent he gave justification for the suspicion by impersonating in a mild way a prohibition agent. Gerry found himself the object of attention which openly had a malignant intent. But just as he 'vas surrounded in an alley where he and Eberhart had left some of their belongings, the latter gentleman returned from Browns­ ville and rescued Gerry.

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The novelty and confusion which characterize the beginning of a new school year have had sufficient opportunity to disappear.

Everyone is gradually becoming accustomed to her regular routine.

Yes! the lapse of time has succeeded in overcoming1 a task which is difficult for the memory; namely, to have our schedules fixed in 154

mind. Margaret Sch meling has had several opportunities to ex­ ercise her powers as our president, for several business meetings have been held. Leona Priem, who has the office of treasurer, has been experiencing the pleasures (?) of a monetary collector. The Mixed Chorus is 110'v well organized, so we are again assured of its good musical selections. The Freshmen co-eds are becoming habituated to their ex aminations. We heard many groans and sor­ rowful tales after tlieir first examination had been written, but such manifestations have also come and gone.

The arrival of two new students has increased the number of co-eds. Nancy McLaughlin of this city, and Phyllis Weeks of South Dakota, have entered our ranks. However, one of our fa­ miliar members, Eveline Voigt, has been forced to discontinue her studies, because of illness. She has entered Forest Lawn Sani­ tarium to recover hex* health.

Now and then, vve receive reports concerning; the activities of former students. Evelyn Yaeck has a position as governess at Oshkosh, Wis. Lenore Gewecke made us a farewell visit, prior to her entrance at the University of Wisconsin.

Myrtle Borkenliagen lias found added labor for herself. Be­ sides attending college, she fills a position at Salick's Jewelry Store.

Several of us have already managed to stumble or fall while ascending^ or descending a few stairs which lead to the Girls’ Rooms. The results have not been serious, however. The other morning, “Lolly” Ltieck arrived in a handicapped state, She had a sprained ankle, hut the aforesaid stairs were not culpable. ,Last year, some of the ■■preps— had a small organization which existed f?r the purpose of enjoying wiener roasts. At that time.

J：he club,> consisted of six members. They must have had a mem­ bership drive this year. As a result, their number has been doubled ancj they represent a lively, active group. According to the rules and, regulations eml)odied in their constitution, they celebrate the exciting- event every Monday. Each member displays very much enthusiasm about this weekly occurrence.

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Prof.: “The way you laugh sometimes makes me think I ought to bring some oats for you.”

THIS ONE REALLY HAPPENED Clerk: “Fly Paper?

Sure. Do you want to take it with you ?

Fresh young tiling: **No, I’ll bring the flies and you may stick them on.

Teacher: “Wlmt’s your name ?

Pupil: “Jule.”

Teacher: “You must say Julius, (to next pupil) What’s your name?”

Next Pupil: ''Billius, sir.’ 氺氺本 “Mania, koennen alle Engel fliegen?”

“Ja Gewiss, mein Kind, warum fraegst du?”

“Oh，Papa sagte heute Morgen zum Dienstmaedchen: ‘Ach du mein lieber Engel.M Die 'vird heut’ noch fliegen.” * * * THE SCOTS AGAIN A venerable old Scot purchased a little radio set. A few days later his friends asked him how he liked the set.

“Well，it’s aw richt to listen to，’’ he replied, “biit those bulbs are not so guid to read by. 本

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about the Scotchman who took his children out of school because the teacher told them to pay attention.” * 氺 * NOW WILL SOMEBODY TELL ME Where can a man buy a cap for his knee ?

Or a key to the lock of his hair ?

Can his eyes be called an academy Because there are pupils there?

In the crown of his head what gems are found ?

Who travels the bridge of his nose?

Can he use, when shingling the roof of his mouth, The nails in the end of his toes?

Can the crook of his elbow be sent to jail If so what did he do?

How does he sharpen his shoulder blades??

I’m sure I don’t know, do you?

Can he sit in the shade of the palms of his hands, Or beat on the drum of his ear?

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A CRUCIAL PERIOD Years ago the process of choosing an occupation was quite simple. In many homes at least the parents played a very impor­ tant role in the selection of a suitable occupation for their son.

The son either followed the footsteps of his father or some other occupation upon which the father had set his mind early in hisl son’s life. And furthermore the occupations that were considered worthy at that time were very few. But if a young man was for­ tunate or unfortunate enough to be allowed to choose his own des­ tiny, the process was also quite simple but, one might say, also very unsatisfactory. Most occupations were chosen by some whim or secret ambition. The young man went out, sought work, was employed for a time as an apprentice, and finally became a crafts­ man along that line. If this did not suit him he was under no ob­ ligation and soon cast his lot with some other trade. If in doubt, one even went to a palm reader or phrenologist.

But in the present era one cannot take the choice of his occu­ pation so lightly. Occupations have become more numerous, and everything is highly specialized. In order to attain a fair living many years of preparation and schooling are necessary, and for this reason one must be most careful in his choice, lest he err and spend his life in drudgery and unhappiness, while he is doing some 158

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For this reason many of the leading universities are offering courses in what they call New Psychology for the purpose of aiding young men in a diligent choice as to what branch of life they are best suited and in which they are most capable of doing good for themselves and their fellowmen. These courses are not mere forms or systematic processes to get money out of the people. There are of course corruptions along these lines, but the courses themselves are really scientific. Professors of psychology at many eastern universities have made a specialty of this branch of psychology which they term Manhood Research. Harvard has a bureau of vocational guidance with separate offices and advisors, and Wis­ consin boasts of an office for vocational advice. But of all colleges Stanford seems to be the most wide awake and farthest advanced in this field. They have a special staff in charge of a course in Manhood Research and an office of vocational guidance, This office goes so far as to give out accurate information regarding actual opportunities and to make an annual report of the progress and success! of their work. This science may be divided into two dis­ tinct types: human analysis and job analysis. Job analysis is really the more important, since it dissects a given job into its various requirements and duties and then together with a human analysis puts these together to find the most suitable combination for a par­ ticular person. But only the most efficient men are capable of putting the two analyses together properly. Therefore, one should be particularly careful in selecting a course in Manhood Research or whatever name may be given to this type of work, because this type of work offers attractive occupation to men who know little about the work and therefore offer advice that may ruin one’s career. .But why all this formality and bother? Is it not possible to pick your life's work yourself? Yes. and no. There are records of cases where these courses have put men on the right track, and these men have made a success in business. But as a rule I believe that a good self-analysis is by far the best. A person can feel his secret inclinations, and everyone should have some secret ambition.

Can an expert psychologist really study the innermost thoughts and beliefs of a man ? He can to some extent no doubt, but it takes a very highly educated and highly experienced man properly to analyze another person’s actions. Therefore, I think that these courses, are superfluous to the extent that they attempt human analysis. Job analysis may be of aid to a man in selecting his work, but self-analysis is the important phase in the choice of your work.

This may be materially aided by a proper course, and I think it is in this line that steps should be taken toward further development.

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secret ambition? If you have any grit and vim, you surely have some ambition. But most people live in the rush and superficial attitude of the present age, at least the youth does, without reserv­ ing an hour here and there foi4 a serious moment of reflection and self-analysis until a tragedy has happened, or until it is too late to change his position in life. Day dreaming and building air-castles may seem foolish and ridiculous to most people, but I believe there is an endless source of wealth in them if these reflections are the least bit serious. Take an hour of your time some day and let pic­ tures of the past and future travel before your eyes, Make a moving picture of your own in your mind, and do not always remain passive and let the movie camera flash unrealistic scenes before your eyes that spoil your conception of what life really is. Life is too serious, and you have other things besides the worldly trash to reckon with, a tiling that most people forget. An hour’s reflec­ tion may open your eyes. This world isn’t a bluff, it is a reality, all too stern for most people. If you have decided or pictured to yourself something that you think you would like to make your life's work, go about it in earnest, and properly prepare yourself to cope with it. Be sure of yourself before you accept a position.

Don’t try to get up in tlic world on a blulT： it doesn’t pay. If you are not capable of handling a position, do not accept. It will be much more noble to earn your livelihood by manual labor. If you accept a higher office, ym must always consider those immediately under you. You arc iheir leader and guiding influence. If you already have a high position and are not worthy of it, dro p it.

Don’t be egotistic. You are only a small cog in the great machine, the world. Judge yourself, and be a very strict judge. It is your­ self that you are usually too lenient with. Every person should be able to realize if he really judges himself whether he is doing his duty or not. Many a man who has pulled the strings for a job has been pulled to his disgrace.

That by way of general advice for your work in this universe.

Now as a student, what is your ambition? Many students attend school with a definite aim in view; others think they have an aim, and some are merely going to school. To which class do you be­ long? The first two types are usually very conscientious students who are trying to get the best out of the opportunities offered them.

The last group usually offers listless students but sometimes some very energetic ones. The big question therefore is―will the stu­ dent whose parents choose his occupation for him be more success­ ful than the one who by experience eventually finds out what he really cares for and then prepares himself? The latter method seems to me the most fruitful, because it first gives the person a brpad and comprehensive view of the various sides of each thing in this world, whereas the student who starts his college, or even high 160

[^ Math ^ school, days with one aim in view will become rather narrow mind­ ed, and this will hinder him even in his specialized branch of work.

Therefore, if you have not as yet chosen a definite objective in life, don't let that trouble you, but rather redouble your efforts in an attempt to obtain the most knowledge from the opportunities offered you and analyze yourself, study yourself, and judge your­ self honestly, and you will soon find out your faults and abilities, and you will then be able to make a most intelligent choice of a position which you can fill and capably handle during your life.

In this way you may not need help from these new courses. But keep in mind that the subject of job analysis is most important and that you, especially upper classmen, are facing the most crucial point in your life when you determine your life’s work. If you have already decided, well and good. But think it over, judg^ yourself, are you capable? If. not, wqrk hard, and be capable, or if some handicap of nature prevents your success in a line you be­ lieve you would like to follow, don’t be afraid to chan IC

SCHIFFAHRT. Manche Leute wissen gar nicht, welch eine grosse Anziehungskraft das Wasser fuer sie hat, bis sie einmal einen Dampfer mit Volldampf aus deni Hafen fahren sehen, der die blaue Flut mit seinem riesigen Kiel clurchschneidet. Es bemaechtigt sich meiner immer ein eigentuemtliches Gefuehl, wenn ich ein solches Bild sehe; ich moechte mil, es zieht etwas an meinem Gefuehl, das sich nicht beschreiben laesst und wofuer die meisten Leute wohl kein Interesse haben wuerden.

Jedenfalls nahm ich mit Freuden an. als mir diesen Sommer ein Freund den Vorschlag machte, mit ihm nach Frankfort und zumeek zu segeln. Ich war seit vierzehn Jahren nicht auf einem • Dampfer gewesen, obschon ich oft hatte fahren wollen. Es war an einem Sonntagmorgen, als wir von Manitowoc abfuhren; das Wet­ ter Hess wirklich nichts zu wuenschen uebrig, und das Wasser war ruhig wie man es auf Lake Michigan erwarten konnte.

Etwa einhundert Leute hatten sich auf das Schiff versammelt. Es war eine Faehre der Ann Arbor Bahn, die beladene Eisenbahnwagen nach Frankfort befoerdern sollte; das Schiff war gut gebaut, noch lieu and fuer eine Faehre sehr gut ausgestattet.

Uebrigens ist dies Schiff die groesste Faehre, die auf Lake Michigan faehrt; man fuehrt als Ladung etwa fuenfzig bis fuenfundsiebzig Waggons, was schon eine ganz schoene Last ist.

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angejag^; ihm entstiegen fuenf Maenner, die mit Trommeln, Klarinetten, Saxaphones und anderen mehr oder wenig fraglichen Instrumenten beladen waren. Sie loesten ihre Karten und begaben sich an Bord. **Na, das mag noch eine schoene Tuterei geben/* meinte mein Freund; seine Ahnung sollte bald genug wahr werden.

Et'va um neun Uhr wurden die Leinen geloest und das Schiff setztc sich sanft, kaum merkbar in Bewegung. Wir fuhren zwischen z'vci Molen aus clem Ha fen heraus. Alle Leute hielten sich auf dem Hauptdeck auf, da unter diesem nichts war, als der Raum flier (lie Waggons, der Masch'nenraum und (lie Kessel. Oberhalb dieses Decks war das Vorderdeck, (lie Bruecke des Kapitaens und das Sturindeck; lelzteres war gesperrt und durfte nicht betreten werden. Wir beide standen nebst einigen anderen Passagieren am Heck und salien das Land verschwinden. Zuerst konnte man noch die ganze Staclt deutlich sehen, dann traten nur die freistehenden Gebauede scharf hervor, zuletzt verschwammen (lie Stadt und die an beiden Seitcn der Stadt liegenden Strecken Landes zu einem Imnten Farbenmcer zusammen, und dann sah man nur noch in weiter Feme (lie grauen Umrisse des Landes, bis es endlich ganz verschwand. Wir waren nun an alien Seiten von Wasser umringt, was tins in eigentuemlichc Stimmung versetzte. Wir waren voellig. auf das Schiff angewicscn- Seine eisernen Waende und seine Deckreeling waren die Grenzcn unseres Gebiets. Wir fuhren mit eincr Geschwindi^kcit von fucnfzehn Meilen die Stunde mit einem ocstlichen Kiirs. Stellte man sich aber an (lie Reeling und schaute ins Wasscr liinah, so schien es, als oh die Geschwaindigkeit ganz erheblich groesser soi. Das Schiff fuhr sehr ruhig; nur ein ganz lejses Drochncn und cin sanftes Schaukeln erinnerten daran, class wir ueberhaupt in liewegung waren.

Die Leute, die mit uns fuliren, 'varen interessant. Mit etlichen liessen wir uns in ein Gespraech ein und verbrachten so eine Stunde c^ler z'vei. Aber was uns am meisten aufFiel war die Tanzwut, die die meisten von den Passagieren befallen zu liaben schien. Das* A'orhergenannte Orchester ling bald an zu spielen, und die Leute â&#x20AC;˘ fingen an zu tanzen; und das ging so fort waehrend der gfanzen Faiirt bin und zurueck. Ich wesis nicht, wie sie es ausgehalten liaben : man sollte meinen, sie waeren nach der ersten Stunde voellig ermattet gewesen, aber nichts von alle dem. Auch die Musikanten muessen staehlerne Haende und Lippen gehabt haben; anders kann ich mir ihre Ausdauer nicht erklaeren. Wir haben zwoelf Stunden an Bord zugehracht, und die Leute haben keine halbe Stunde zur Zeit geruht. Warum sie ueberhaupt die Fahrt machten, weiss ich nicht; sie haetten ihr Tanzen gerade so gut zu Hause besorgen koennen.

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Es Hess sich jetzt aber etwas merken, auf (las wir garnicht gerechnet batten. Wir kriegten naemlich einen grossen Hunger, der uns garnicht wieder verlassen wollte. Selbst (lie reiche Mahlzeit, die wir zu Mitlag erhielten, liielt nicht lange vor; es muss die frische Seeluft ge'vesen sein, die uns so viel mit unserer Nahrung zu schaffen machteKurz nach Mittag sahen wir im Osten die dunkeln Umrisse der Sandberge, die an der Kueste Michigans sich haeufiger findenals an der Kueste Wisconsins. Zuerst waren die Umrisse noch sehr verschwommen, so dass man kaum erkennen konnte, ob es Wolken waren oder nicht. Schliesslich aber traten sie (lcutlich hervor und zeigten eine schmutzige gelbe Farbe, die nur ab und zu durch das belle Gruen der wenigen Baeume verclraengl wurde. Bald konnte man auch die Taeler eskennen, und auf einea dieser taler, das zug1leich den Iiafen von Frankfort bildete, steuertcn wir nun zu. Um so naeher wir der Stadt kamen, desto mehr cntfaltete sich ihre malerische Schoenheit. Klein war sie, aber sauber und anheimelnd.

Zur Rechten waren nur die Eisenbahnanlagcn, aber zur Linken lag die Stadt: eine Hauptstrasse hatte sie, wie gewoehnlich, die ani See anfing und dann im Bogen sich hinter den Bergen verlor. Die Haeuser waren rein und zierlich und, was mich am meisten Wunder nahm, hatten fast alle rote Daecher. Da man weiter keine Fabriken sah, nahmen wir an, dass die Be'voliiier der Stadt meist Fischer und Hafenarbeiter seien, was sich dcnn spaeter auch als wahr erwiess.

Wir landeten an der Seite des Hafens, die der Stadt gegenueber lag, und wurden mit Booten zum andem Ufer uebergesetzt. Zwei Stunden weilteu wir in dem kleinen Staedtchen, ohne etwas besonders Auffallendes zu bemerken. Die tanzlustigen Passagiere hatten eine Tanzhalle entdeckt und der Spektakel ging- von neuem los â&#x20AC;&#x201D;wir beneideten sie kaum, aber sie schienen sich auf das koestlichste zu amuesieren. Die Pfeife der Faehre rief uns um fuenf Uhr an Bord zurueck, und einige Minuten spaeter fuhren wir langsam und majestaetisch aus dem Hafen. Es war erheblich kuehler geworden; eine steife Brise vom Westen wehte uns entgegen, und das Wasser war etwas unruhiger als zuvor, so dass das Schiff etwas Staerker schaukelte. Ich wuenschte mir einen Sturm, aber . zu mehr als einer steifen Brise kam es nicht. Die Sonne hatte sich 163

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Die Fahrt bei Nacht hat mir fast noch besser gefallen als die bei Tage. Die meiste Zeit habe ich auf der Bruecke zugebracht.

Der Vollniond war aufgegangen und blickte zuweilen (lurch die Wolken, (lie wie zerfetzte Lappen, von Sturm gefegt, vor ihm hinjagten. Er aber thronte (lort oben ruhig mit seinen Sternen und liess zuweilen seinen milden Schein auf dem Wasser ruhenDas Orchesler spidte wiecler lustig drauf los, aber nur die hartnaeckigstcn der I'acnzer hielten noch aus; (lie meisten Leute batten sicli in klcinc Ouppen auf den verschiedenen Teilen des Schififes zerstreut. Gar oft, wenn man uni eine Ecke bog, sah man ein Paar. das vcrstohlcn in der Dunkelheit sass und Zaertlichkeiten austauschte; aber man konnte es ihnen in der ruhigen Sommernacht kaum vcnlcnkcn, denn es war, als ob das ganze Schiff in Roman tik get audit sei. Unter uns stampften die Maschinen, und wir flogon unscrcm Zirlo zu, nur (lurch die Nadel des Kompasses und (lie sicherc Hand dcs Steuermanns geleitet. Ungefaehr eine Stundc vor unsercr I -andting' sahen wir schon vom Bug des SchifFes das Liclil, das die Ilatcncinfahrt von Manitowoc bezeichnete. Bald erfuhr cs jedermann : wir waren nahe am Ziel. Und nun bot sich eine Szcne dar, die icli in meineni ganzen Leben nicht vergessen werde. Das Orchester g.ing. voran, und etwa drei Viertel der Leute folgten in cineni wilden "J'anz ueber das ganze Schiff. Wilde, johlende Schrcie wurden ausgestossen, und die Musikanten spiel ten ein wirre, unmelodisclic Weise. Dreimal gingen sie so um das ganze Deck herum, his sie sich endlich ausgetobt hatten. Was diese Szene bedeuten sollte, weiss ich heute noch nicht; ich dachte dabei unwillkuerlich an Meuterei zur See und mir schauerte. Denn so, meine ich, muss es ungefaehr sich anhoeren, wenn die Mann-. schaft sich gegen den Kapitaen auflehnt und mit wildem Geschrei ihre Forderungen kundmacht.

Etwa um ein hall) zehn Uhr landeten wir. Eine grosse Menge von Leuten hatte sich am Ufer versammelt, meist solche, die Bekannte vom Schiff abholen wollten. Sobald wir festgemacht natten, stuerzte alles Hals ueber Kopf von Bord nach Hause.

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CHARLEMAGNE^ RESTORATION OF EDUCATION n someone would express the desire that Charlemagne, or a man with his competence, arise and lead our country, he wou doubt be booed by many. The majority of people, especia y 164

nien who come together to discuss the betterment of present day culture or the prevention of war think of him only as a great . military leader of barbarian times. They associate his name with Na­ poleon's and Caesar’s and consequently they think of him as a butcherer of men for personal glory and strength. This concep­ tion, however, does Charles considerable injustice, because his fame rests more upon his civilizing and Christianizing reforms than upon his belligerent undertakings. Of course it is understood, that had he not waged wars, lie would not have been successful, but much of his warfare was l)ut the means to his ultimate end.

He was born in an age of lawlessness and disorder, and it fell to his lot that be become king of a heterogeneous conglomeration of people which formed one of the strongest nations of that time.

When he ascended the throne two different types of subjects confronted him. There was one class which had been in.foreign coun­ tries for generations. They brought culture from these lands, but were ignorant of the traditions of their forefathers- Usually they were rich nobles, so that they did not have to work. State affairs and education were of no interest to them. They lay in a mental and cultural lethargy, and their aim was to get as much enjoyment out of life as possible with the least exertion. The other class com­ prised those who remained at home and clung- to the common laws of their ancestors. They lacked wealth and refinement. They were unlettered, and had no source to obtain information. Instead of lounging in castles they constantly engaged in petty strifes. There was an ambitious, warlike, and wild stream of blood flowing* through their veins.

The plight in which Charles found the Church was most de­ plorable. The monastic and cathedral schools had ceased to function. They had become places for the pensioning of favorites and had lost their religious zeal and effectiveness. The abbots and bishops possessed little learning, and the lower clergy recruited from the bondmen were ignorant, and a detriment to the Church.

All sorts of misbeliefs enshrouded the teachings of the Church.

The people either believed nothing at all or else gave credence to foolish superstitions.

This castle of indolence and vast field of ignorance could not, and would not uphold his empire. The school connected with the royal court, in which the king’s assistants received their education, known as the “Palace School,” no longer taught letters. As a con­ sequence the emperor’s right hand men failed in many requirements.

Nobles whose fathers had had scholarships, had practically sunk to the abysmal depth of illiteracy They were too lazy to recopy manuscripts, and had to reproduce phrases as we do pictures. A written word was only a combination of meaningless marks. People who wished to pray to God, petitioned badly on account of in­ 165

correct books. The abbots could not even offer up a correct prayerThey at one time told Charles that they offered,' up “sacred and pious prayers” in his behalf. He said he recognized the- correct thought in this act, but they had too many uncouth expressions in their prayers because of their uneducated tongue.

Charlemagne early discovered this unfortunate educational sit­ uation, and was determined to improve it. Time and again in his executive capacity the gaps in his knowledge, which had not been filled in his youth, opposed him. He strove to piece these out. He wanted to stir his people out of their sloth, so that he might' have proficient assistants，as may be observed in one of his harsh repriinands to the children of the nobility, when in visiting school he noticed that they did not apply themselves as the children of the populace did. “By the King of Heaven,” he thundered at them, “I do not consider your rank and refinement, although others wonder at you; but of this you may be certain, that unless you substitute quickly the greatest diligence for your laziness, you can never rise He sought to spur on the to a very high position with Charles. clergy to the study of classics. Above all he realized that he needed a unified empire if he wished to accomplish anything, and he saw that the only {oundation for a sound empire was a sound Church.

He wanted to a'vakc the Church from her sleep, so that she would fulfill her earthly task and teach his liegemen. People would not kwl an obedient and upright life if they did not learn to do so through the love of Christ. Souls could certainly not be saved through the work of the Church if the Gospel were lost to her.

As a means of bringing his ideas to fruit, Charles the Grfeat began a restoration of the classical Latin and Greek. There were no learned men in his kingdom; so he turned his attention to secur­ ing teachers capable of giving the needed instruction. He made journeys to Rome and brought back Latin instructors. Whenever he heard of some scholar he communicated with him and attempted to draw him to his court. In a short time he had Peter of Pisa and Paulus Diaconus from Pavia, Theodulf from Spain, Clemens and Dungal from Ireland, and the most renowned of them all, the Anglosaxon, Alcuin, in his fold. Through him Charlemagne proceeded to revive the cathedral, monastic, and parish sclipols, and to increase the importance of the “Palace School.” Alcuin at once addressed his work to the school of the palace. He introduced ele­ mentary exercises and provided catechetical instruction for the younger pupils. Questions and answers were prepared by him and had to be memorized by the pupils. With the older members, among whom were the king and queen, he conducted oral recitatijms. He taught them arithmetic, astronomy, poetry, the writings W th.e Fathers, and theology. Charles, with the co-operatio|n of Alcuin, issued an educational decree “urging diligence in the pur166

suit of learning and the selection of teachers for this work who are able, willing, and zealous to learn themselves and to teach others.** He specified the subjects to be taught in the schools, and directed how they should be taught.

After several years of strenuous labor he brought these insti­ tutions to their feet again. He then diverted his attention to the monks and clergy. He edited sermons and sent them through the realm. These the clergy had to study and read to the people. He imported educated monks from Italy and they reawakened the hun­ ger for knowledge. The monasteries were no longer free boarding abodes, blit were plac cs in which Latin and Greek were studied, manuscripts read and recopied, and the Bible translated. His plan to establish a school beside every parish church was becoming reality.

Charles, attempts to restore learning and strengthen his empire were not fruitless. While he yet lived he could look' about him and see the revival of the educational work of the monastic, cathedral, and palace schools. He could read books with his subjects, and receive Latin letters from them. It was evident that the .“Palace School’’ had formed the center of intellectual life in his kingdom, and had encouraged friendly emulation among the scholars who sought his patronage; that it had brought all the chief personages of Church and State in living contact with the movement. He realized that his reform had trained up a generation of men, whc< when scattered far and wide throughout the empire, still kept alive the Carolingian tradition. He could go to Church and listen to correct prayers and with his subjects hear the Word of God ex­ plained to some degree. And still more, when he lay on his dying bed and thought over his wishes and accomplishments, he could truly say “Vixi.” ^ ____ When we study the history of the time from his death to the twelfth century Renaissance and see how learning immediately faded when his guiding hand was removed, how the state of so­ ciety and condition of times declined on account of his successors’ weaknesses and the attacks of the Northmen, we are inclined to say his results are meager. If, however, we trace the development of learning from the twelfth century back to his time and see the marked revival in education, and carefully watch how the few mo­ nastic and cathedral schools that did not decline, enthusiastically fostered education and formed the centers of learning in the future, if we realize that the substitution of ideas for might as a ruling force originated here, that intellectual stagnation never again pre­ vailed, and that the widening of civilization and culture began here, we must say “vidit et vicit.”

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THE LORELEI Ich weiss nicht, was soil es bedeuten, class ich so traurig bin, Ein Maerchen aus alten Zeiten, das kommt mir nicht aus dem Sinn.

Die Luft ist kuehl, und es dunkelt, und ruhig fliesst der Rhein; Der Gipfel cles Berges funkelt im Abendsonnenschein.

Die schoenste Jungfrau sitzet dort oben wunderbar.

Ihr goldenes Geschmeide blitzet, sie kaemmt ihr goldenes Haar.

Sie kaemmt es mit goldenem Kamme und singt ein Lied dabei; Das hat cine wundersame, gewaltige Melodei.

Den Schiflcr im kleinen Scliiffe ergreift es mit wildem Weh; Er scliaut nicht die Fclscnriffe, er schaut nur hinauf in die Hoeh.

Ich glaube, die Wellen versclilingen am Encle Sch iffer und Kahn; Und das hat mit ihrem Singen die Lorelei getan.

No one can realize the power, beauty, and the solemnity of that song, wherein Heine has immortalized the Lord ay, unless he takes a trip on the Rhine witli a few hundred students, and as they pass the Rock, hears them sing the Lorelay song. A lasting feeling of reverence and awe will come over him.

It was my privilege to experience this sensation one moonligiit, starry night, when a few lnindred students and I went on the splen­ did Rhine steamer “Lohengrin” to visit the Lorelay. As we were passing it, we stood in student formation with uncovered heads, held our student caps across our breasts, and sang Heine’s song of the Lorelay. The impression made on me is life-long. It is drivmg me, as it does many others, to write the story. Yes, indeed, “Ei n Maerchen aus alten Zeiten, das kommt mir nicht aus dem Sinn!

In the river bed at the Lorelay Rock is a chain of rocks, which stretches from one side to the other, but nature was kind enough to leave an opening for ships to pass through. If the helmsman does not steer his ship directly through it, the ship will be ripped open by the reefs. Many moss-covered wrecks lie there at the foot of the Lorelay throne.

In remote ages, when Germany was being wrapped in mytho­ logical history, the story of the Lorelay was placed among its innumeralDle myths, where it glitters like the evening star. The story briefly told is this: Long, long ago, when night had cast her dark 〒uitle over the Lorelay Rock, that stood there like a watchful sentinel, and her lover, the smiling moon, had cast a silvery bridge： over the deep, green stream, the Rhine goddess Lorelay would sit on that rock like a queen on her throne. On her head: rested a crown of stars. Her golden hair, waving in the evening breezes, 168

would gently kiss her graceful shoulders and shade her snow-white raiment so that this beautiful being? truly appeared like a goddess.

At times she would comb her golden hair with a golden comb. At other times, she would sing songs of love and burning affection. It was these, her divine beauty and love songs, that charmed the men on the ships as they came along at night―charmed them so that they would forget everything else. The helmsman would look at her, steer his ship towards her, reach out his hand to her; but the ship, ripped open 1)y the reefs, would sink, and Father Rhine would drown the fearful cries of the mariners as they sank in their watery graves.

Thus many years ago, Ronald, a proud youth and the boldest warrior at the Palatinate Court of his father, also heard of this di­ vine and enchanting creature. His heart began to burn with the desire to behold her, to love her, and to have her. Even before having seen this goddess he felt drawn to her by an irresistible power. I'urn whichever way he might, lie could not lose this de­ sire. His father, knowing the great danger involved in even near­ ing this creature, gave strict orders for him to stay away- Under the pretens of going hunting, however, he left the court and suc­ ceeded in getting an old sailor to row him lo the rock.

Twilight was brooding over the valley of the Rhine when, the little boat approached the cliff. Night was creeping over the hills.

The historical evening star was twinkling in the firmament. Twink­ ling in a seemingly smiling way as if it gave ear to the many love messages that the surrounding stars were sending it. "Why did it fascinate Ronald so tonight when often before it had passed liis eyes unnoticed? Was it his protecting angel who had placed it there as a warning to the deluded man, to save him from sure de­ struction at tlie hands of the water nymph ? It surely seemed that way, for he forgot the Lorelay momentarily and gazed at the evening: star in rapture. He gazed, until a low cry from the old sailor at his side interrupted him. “The Lorelay!’’ lie whispered startled, ‘do you see her?” Suddenly his eyes turned and the only answer the old man received was a low murmur which escaped his lips.

With \yide open eyes he looked up—there she was. Yes, this was she, this wonderful being! There she was, just like a rose in splen­ dor! A glorious picture in a dark frame. Yes, those were her tangled golden curls and her flowering white garments.

What was she doing to hold his undivided attention ? Just as t.he legend relates—she was combing her golden hair. Shim­ mering rays of light surrounded her small, graceful head, revealing her feminine charms to the utmost, in spite of the night and the distance. As Ronald gazed at her, her lips seemed to open, a song1 thrilled through the silence, soft and plaintive like the sweet notes of a meadow lark，or rather the still sweeter notes of a nightin169

gale on a still and serene summer evening. Just as a painter adapts the color of his paints to the subject of his picture, so the Lorelay adapted the color of her tone to the sentiment of her songFrom her heights the Lorelay looked clown into the hazy distance far below and cast a rapturous look at the youth which sank deeply into his soul, thereby momentarily depriving him of all self control.

His eyes were fixed on the features of this celestial being" where) he read the sweet story of love—love that knows no bounds, love that is in itself a taste of heaven, love that permits us to hear the vox celestia, though only for a few moments. This was the con­ dition in which we find the young man. Rock stream, glorious night, all melted into a mist before his eyes, he saw nothing but the figure above, nothing bul the radiant eyes.

The boat, crept along too slowly for Ronald. He could no longer remain in it, aiul if his ear did not deceive him, this creature seemed to whisper his name willi unutterable sweetness. Oh! he could not 'vail to fold her in his loving arms, to embrace her sweet torm. No! he could not wait, and calling to her he dashed into the water.

Then, a death-like cry echoed from the rocks—and the waves sighed and washed over the unhappy youth’s corpse. The old boat­ man mourned, and at that moment lightning tore the clouds asunder, and a peal of thunder rang over the mountains. Then the waves wliis]H*rcd gently below, and again from the heights above, sad and dying away, sounded the Lorelay’s song. Jealous Father Rhine had again seen to il that no one should reach his love.

It was with grief intermingled with anger that the Palatinate • Court received the sad news, lie ordered the goddess to be deliv­ ered up to him, dead or alive. Hardy sailors and bold warriors, who had never felt the charm of love in their veins and who never knew romance, were chosen to deliver the golden-haired creature.

The first shades of twilight were gliding softly over mountain, and hill when their boat arrived at the foot of the Lorelay Rock. The rock was surrounded by armed men. The leader, followed by his br.ave and daring comrades, was climbing up the side of the mountain, the top of which was veilecl in a golden mist, which the men thought was the last rays of sunset. It was, however, a bright gleam of light enshrouding the nymph who appeared on the rocks, dreamingly combing her golden hair- As she saw the men ap.proaching, she took a string of pearls from her bosom and with per slender white hand bound them round her forehead, while castmg a mocking glance at the threatening men nearing her.

Looking scornfully over the edge at the leader and his men she asked, “What are the weak sons of the earth seeking lip here on yhe heights?” The leader, trembling with rage and fear, shouted, •You, enchantress !M, and with a contemptuous smile,: 4<we shall 170

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dash you down into the river below.” The Lorelay moved her rosy lips contemptuously and then broke forth in a laugh. “Oh! the Rhine God will come himself to fetch me!” cried she. Then bending her slender body over the precipice, she tore the jewels from her forehead, hurling them triumphantly into the waters, while in a low sweet voice she sang : “Haste thee, haste thee, Oh father dear!

Send forth thy steeds from the waters clear.

I will ride with the waves, and the wind!”

The passion of the Rhine god being aroused, he broke forth in a storm, covering the banks with foamy waves. Two gigantic billows like snow-while steeds rose out of the depths, and carried the Lorelay down into the rushing current, whence she never re­ appeared.

An account of her love affair with father Rhein appears in the opera “Undine.” The song runs partly as follows : ^ “An des Rheines gruenen Ufern sass wohl einst die Lorelei.

Sang auf hohen schwarzen Felsen ihre suesse Melodei; Sang von Liebe, sang von Treue, sang von heisser Liebesgluth, ^ Und ini Sinnenrausche zog ich, ja im Sinnenrausche zog ich sie liinunter in die Flut, Und sie sass auf meiner Seite auf clem meerkrystall’nen Thron, Und ich zog von ihren Lippen heisser Liebe suessen Lohn.”

Originally this enchantress was not called Lorelay. At least, she is referred to in the oldest myths of the Middle. Ages as Lore.

The addition, “lay,” is characteristic to the environment of that place. This we may readily see by closely observing' the language and dialect of the inhabitants of this region- The cliffs in this part of the country are almost exclusively slate hills, and the Rhinelander’s term for slate is “lay.” Such a slate cliff is therefore com­ monly known and referred to as a lay-cliff. Since this one was the home of Lore it was named the “Lorelay,” meaning of course the shate cliff of Lore or Lore’s cliff of lay.

Be this as it may, the Lorelay is the center of German love and devotion. Round about the cliff we find vineyards of grapes un­ rivaled for their taste; in the cliff lies the “Niebelungen Schatz,” and on the cliff the loving Lore. Certainly a tempting picture and realization of love and romance.

Paul Schliesser, *30.

WIE ICH VON MEINEN OHEIM EMPFANGEN WTJRDE. Von St. Petersburg nach Samara ist durchaus keine kleine S.trecke. Man muss auch bedenken, dass die Zuege in Russland nicht so schnell. lahren wie in unserem Lande. Nach einer langen ?!

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Reise ist man gewoehnlich sehr hungrig und ermuedet. Mein Oheim sah das wohl ein und nalim mich deswegen erst in ein Wirtsliaus, ebe wir (lie weitere Reise mit dem Schlitten unternahmen.

Hier traf ich auch mit fuenf Knechten meines Vetters zusammen.

Es dauerte eine lange Zeit, bis das Essen aufgetragen wurde. Waehrcnd clieser Zeit wurde vicles erzaehlt und gefragt. Der Vetter war ueber meine Ankunft hoch erfreut: “Na, Goettlieb, nun musst du auch tuechtig essen; wir haben noch eine lange Strecke vor uns, und mit clem Schlitten geht es jetzt auch nicht so schnell, weil letzte Nacht wieder vicl Schnee gefallen ist.” Die Knechte hatten bereits gegessen, ebe wir angefangen hatten. “Nun, Kerle,” sagte mein Oheim zti den Knechlcn, spannt (lie Pferde schnell an; unser Jun^e ist von der Ian sen Reise sehr muede, und das Fahren ist jetzt sehr unbequem.” Nachdem die Knechte hinausgegangen waren, fragte ich den Onkel wej?cn der langen Baerte: denn fast ein jeder hatte seinen Bart. “Na. mein licber Gottlieb, dann werde ich auch eininal eine Frage stellen : Warum fahren die Bauern in Amerika Mist an ihre Haeuscr, wenn der Winter kommt ? Es ist hier sehr kalt, mein Junge, und der Bart haelt einem das Gesicht warm. Du musst deinen auch wachsen lasscn, so lange du bei uns bist.” Das Gespraech wurde dann weiter gefuebrt, und wir stellten uns gegenscitig viele Fragen.

Endlich trat ciner der Knechte in die Stube und berichtete, dass der Schlitten zuni Fahren paratstebe. Die uebrigen sassen sclion in dem Schlitten mit Gewehren in ihren Haenden, und neben ilinen lagen nogli etliche Pistolen. Ich nahm meinen Platz neben meinem Onkel. Der Schlillen war sehr breit, ganz anders eingerichtet als die Schlitten un seres Landes. Die drei starken, ausdauerenden und feurigen Pferde stampften schon mit den Hu fen imd warteten auf das Signal zum Gehen. Der Kutscher stand vorne am Schlitten, und mit sechs Zuegeln lenkte er die Pferde.

Ich merkte sofort, dass die Pferde voneinander .unabhaengig angeschirrt waren, al)er doch so, class das einzelne mit dem andern dadurch vereint war, dass der rechte und linke Riemen (lurch einen weiten Ring an dem Zaumzug- cles Mittel pferdes ging. Im Guertel trug der Kutscher ein scharfes Messer. Von da wandte ich meine Augen wieder auf die Bewaflfneten und die Gewehre neben ihnen. ，lNa, mein Gottlieb, dir kommt wohl alles komisch vor,” bemerkte :ein Oheim, nachdem wir schon etliche Meilen gefahren waren.

“Hier ist man im Winter seines Lebens nicht sicher; die Woelfe s^d unsere schlimmsten Feinde. Wir tun uns immer auf diese ''•eise zusammen, um uns so besser gegen diese Bestien schuetzeti zu koennen. Ja, mein Junge, es ist fast unglaublich, welch grossen Schaden der Wolf clem Viehstande alljaehrlich zufuegt. Nicht allein der Reisende ist den AngrifiFen der Woelfe ausgesqtzt, sondern in ihrer Dreistigkeit dringen sie selbst in Staedte und in Viehkop172

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peln ein. Zu diesen Angriffen versammeln sich die Woelfe zu vielen Hunderten. Du clarfst dich also nicht wundern, dass meine Kerle so bewaffnet sincl ” Mit diesen Worten reichte er mir auch ein Gewehr: “Ob'volil du kein sicherer und erfahrener Jaeger bist/* sagte er, akannst do uns doch mithelfen, wenn die Hunde uns angreifen.” Nachdem wir etwa eine Strecke von zwanzig Meilen zurueckgelegt hatten, erhob ich mich von Silze unci machte eine Bewegung, um aus dem Schlitten zu steigen. Der Oheim griff mich schnell bei dem Anne und rief : “Urn Gottes Willen, Junge, das tue nicbt, denn wenn du so hinter deni Schlitten her laeufst, koennen (lie Bestien aus dem Gebuesch springen, dich ueberfallen und zerreisen. Er zog so fort semen Rock aus und wollte dam，it meine Fuesse zuclecken, al)er dagegen prolestierte ich solange, bis er den Rock wieder anzog. l,Noch etlichen Stunden, dann sind wir hinter dem warmen Ofen，’’ sagte er wiederholt, um mich zu troesten.

Bis jetz batten wir selir wenige Woelfe erblickt, hier und da zeigten sich etliche an den Waldraendern. Ausser der Kaelte hatte ich auch gegen den Sclilaf zu kaempfen; denn die lange Reise hatte mich selir ermuedet. Der Gutscher Hess seine Pferde langsamer gehen. Mein Onkcl redete nun auch nicht mclir so viel wie zu Anfang der Reise. Die Uebrigen blickten nach alien Seiten und hielten ihre Gewehre noch immer in den Haenden. Mit einem Male gab es einen solchen Ruck, dass ich beinahe aus clem Schlitten gefallen waere. Ehe ich mich wieder zurecht fancl, waren die Rosse schon in vollem Galopp. Der Kutscher stand kaltbluetig im vor(leren Teil des Schlittens und spornte die feurigen Rosse zu noch schnellerem Laufe an. Aus dem Gebuesch sprangen die Woelfe von beiden Seiten auf uns zu mit aufgespertcn Rachen- Ich liess vor Schrecken mein Gewehr fallen und kroch unter den Sitz. Nun entstand ein ohrenbetaeubender Laerm, ein Donnern und Krachen.

Zu dem Knattern der Gewehre kam das Geschrei der heulenden Woelfe. Sobald eins der Tiere verwunclet oder getoetet war, wurde es so fort in Stuecke gerissen und von den uebrigen aufgefressen.

Endlich verliess ich meinen Platz unter dem Sitz und schaute wiecler um mich. Aus clem Gebuesch sprangen noch mehrere auf uns zu. So hielt es eine lange Zeit an. Ich sail，wie die Ivameraden sich wehrten, und wie unsere Feinde sich gegenseitig1 zerfleischten.

Endlich machte ich einen versuch mein Gewehr aufzunehmen, aber es war nicht mehr da. Zwischen den beinen meiner stehenden Kameraden erblickte ich etliche Gewehre auf dem Boclen liegen und ergrifT eins davon. Nachdem ich mir vide Muehe gegeben hatte, auch gerade zu zielen, merkte ich, dass in dem Gewehr keine Patronen mehr waren.

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Rettung steht bei dir, Kutscher!”，schrie mein Oheim und befahl den uebrigen, class vvir weniger auf das Schiessen achten als darauf， dass wir nicht aus clem Schlitten fielen; denn faellt jemand hinaus, so wird er ohne weiteres zerfleischt. Alle Augen sahen auf den Kutscher. Nun zeigte sicli die Schnelligkeit der feurigen Rosse und die Tucchtigkeit (les Kutschers. In immer groesserer Menge drangen die Woelfe von den Seiten heran. Ein Pferd wurde schon von den Bestien verletzt. O, class doch Hilfe kaeme! Wieder drangen (lie Bestien von den Seiten heran. Nochmals sahen alle Augen auf den Kutscher. Auch ich sah auf ihn und bemerkte, wie er mit der rechten Hand aus seinem Guertel ein scharfes Messer zog. Schnell sclinitt cr den Riemen durch, mit dem (las lahme Pferd an die andern bei den gefesselt war und liess ihnen die Zuegel schiessen Mit einigen festen Sclilaegen trieb er das nun freigelassene Pferd auf die Seitc, wo es von den Verfolgern zerfleischt wurde.

Ueber die uebrigen zwei Pferde liess Hans die Peitsche heftig herfallen. Wir taten noch cinen Blick zurueck und sahen, wie die wuetenden Woelfe das arme zurueckgelassene Tier zerfleischten.

“Ein teurcs opfer，’’ senfzte mein Onkel und wischte sich dann die Augen. Die Vcrfolgun^ liess nach. Einzelne Woelfe folgten noch ihren eine Streckc. kehrten dann aber uni und gingen wieder Genossen- Wir wurden alle gerettet. Schuesse und Zurufe verkuendigten unsere Ankunft; die Gutspforte wurde geoeffnet, und nachdem der Schlitten in dem Hofe war, wurden die Tore wieder verschlosscn.

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Tiger, Bulldog, Badger, Irish, Husky, Pioneer, Viking, Who doesn’t know what is meant by these terms. On hearing these names one immediately calls to mind the colleges or universities represented by them. Their use gives a degree of familiarity and even respect. As with the individual, so with an ,， institution: the more highly it is regarded, the greater the probability of a nickname. ’ Our lack of some such cozy form is to be regretted for several reasons. Though you may never have concerned yourself about th? matter seriously, does not the fact that the newspapers, in cov­ ering our athletic events, variously call us Lutherans, Ministers, Preachers, and Goslings tend to show that there is no one such name by which we are known ? Each reporter conjures up his own and uses it, whether it is apt or not. In headlines either the Pame of. the opponent is used (Vikings, Redmen, Pioneers, etc.) or, if ours is mentioned, our longer Northwestern.

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tioned, such names give a certain1 sense of familiarity and friendliness. Perliaps Northwestern has had some such appelative at some other. If this be the case, it has since been forgot. (It would be appreciated if anyone knowing of such an one were to send it in with any history it might have.)

Its absence is also noted in our college yells and cheers. These are either “for Northwestern” or “for the team.” The word ^North­ westernis suitable for some yells, but it does not adapt itself as readily to the short and snappy ones. It has too many syllables and too many letters for this. A short monosyllabic word of at least one long open vowel is preferable to any other. It woul<l give more variety and admit of many combinations.

Others have fell the need of some such designations. Anyone the subject is，requested to hand having suggestions to offer them in.

E. S”，30.

HIKING The coming of snow and the usual forbidding attitudes of a winter day cause the gradual retirement of that great pest of the open road, the hiker. Probably he will disappear entirely in a few years, for the alarming increase of outrages committed against motorists by criminals who pose as hikers has brought the matter before authorities; and in many of our neighboring states laws have been passed which prohibit hiker? from asking and accepting rides from strangers. One can therefore not blame the motorists —among these especially the unusually kind-hearted traveling men 一if they answer the hiker’s look of despair by staring fixedly ahead and stepping on the gas, or, when they do pick up the applicant whom they have considered sufficiently harmless if they then in­ quire as to his life history during the course of the ride. Un­ doubtedly, after a student reaches the dignified age of twenty or so, he begins to feel just a trifle ashamed of begging, and so loses the old urge to be on the road. But it is to be regretted that this lazy and. comfortable method of travel, whereby the true hiker can easily cover his three hundred miles a day, is being stamped out by a few wretches who roam about the country and take advantage of trusting motorists.

E. K.，，30.

DRAMATICS AT NORTHWESTERN ,.

The time has again arrived when our literary societies' begin their work, and it is only proper that we give! due consideration to 176

means of improving this approaching work. It is evident that during the past few years the literary societies have gradually de­ clined. Vcry often the programs have been below the desired standard, and the meetings have usually been poorly attended. In short, the students have shown a total lack of interest in literary work.

On the other hand, very little stress has been laid upon dra­ matics- The reason for this undesirable condition is very obscure, lmt everyone must agree that dramatics are not only valuable and beneficial, but that they are necessary and indispensable, “All the world's a stage,” and it is natural for people to dramatize. Our life is full of experiences and incidents which are really dramas in themselves.

A course in dramatics cannot satisfactorily he put into our curriculum, but we should have some means of furthering' dramatic development. We should endeavor to enact such productions as portray art and truth and at the same time reflect our ideals and principles.

If we consider how much more the participants in a drama are benefited by enacting it than by most of the other forms of literary work and, if we consider that the audience takes great interest in such presentations, we must come to the realization that it is but rational to take definite steps toward introducing and cultivating worth while dramatics in our literary societies.

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The present system of class numbers was inaugurated four years ago, and thenceforth the last four issues of each volume of t|ie Black and Red have been dedicated to the four collegiate classes.

From mere experiment the class number has in the course of a fe'v years developed into a custom. Worth while results have been obtained, and the interest and enthusiasm which the various classes liave shown have greatly improved our paper. This suitable • ar• rangement has given the classes an opportunity to show their lit­ — erary talent. It has succeeded in instilling the loyal class members 'vith new interest in literary work for their college paper, and each class has zealously striven to excel the others in the field of literary production. We heartily encourage this clean, healthy competi­ tion—this commendable way of manifesting our class spirit―■； but nevertheless vve felt it necessary to warn against the arrant and unbecoming- exposition of the merits and accomplishments of one class in contrast to the demerits of another or the flaunting out­ bursts of class spirit. If one class is superior to another, it has a 177

I od chance to prove its superiority by contributing material that 11 do honor to its members and its college; and it will then be totally unnecessary to resort to loud rivalry.

It is again quality that we stress in preference to quantity, but an abundance of material will, however, be necessary to make se­ lections possible and thus improve the quality. The co-operation of the class members with the column editors will help materially . to make the issues a success, and every member of the class should feel his responsibility and make an earnest effort to do his share toward improving his number. We must not feel too inferior or too indifferent to present our views on timely subjects or to express our ideas and opinions.

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—On October 17 the congregation at Kaukauna celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the ordination of their pastor, Rev. John Reuschel, ex ，01.

—On October 18 Rev. H. Kirchner, '10, of Stambaugh, Wisconsin, was installed as pastor at liaraboo, by Prof. E. A. Wendland, ’06, of Watertown.

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—On October 29 Rev. Gerhard Press, ’20，who formerly had a parish at Burke, South Dakota, was installed as pastor of Grace Church, Sioux City, Iowa.

—Mr. and Mrs. Hugo von Rolir, ex ’92, of Milwaukee, observed their Silver Wedding Anniversary on October 29, and were personally congratulated by many relatives and friends at the cele­ bration.

—On October 29 Rev. F. C. Weylancl of Larson, called on his two sons at Northwestern. He came to Watertown with Oscar Linstedt, ex，31, also of Larson, who refreshed former acquaint­ ances here.

—We announce the birth of a son, Heinz, to Rev. and Mrs. Edgar Hoenecke, ’23, of Marathon City.

—Fritz Brick, ex ’29, was a spectator at our Milton game on October 19. Being vocationally connected with a cigar company Fritz treated his local friends with admirable samplers. 一Rev. Martin Buenger, ’21，of Kenosha, watched our Preps play the Milwaukee Vocational School on October 27. Herbert Martin, ex *31, of Madison, attended the same game. ^—Rev. Theophilus Uetzmann, ’21，of Manitowoc, witnessed the Is orthwestern-Wisconsin “B” game on November 2.

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一Rev. Henry Scherf, ’21，paid his cousin Oscar Hammen a visit on November 7.

—Prof. J. PI. Ott, Ph.D.，’85，of Watertown, attended the pro­ gram given by the Wisconsin Association of Modern Foreign Lan­ guage Teachers, at Milwaukee, on November 9, with particular in­ terest in hearing Dr. Paul Dengler of Vienna, speak on the teach­ ing of German and French.

—Prof- Karl Bretzmann, ’26，of Milwaukee, appeared on our campus on November 8. Serious eye trouble has forced him to temporarily interrupt liis teaching at the Lutheran High School.

'29, made a few brief handshakes at —George Kopitzke, Northwestern on November 10, while returning from the Lutheran Teachers Conference at Milwaukee. George is teaching in the parochial school at Wcyamvega, Wisconsin.

—Rev. G. F. Zinimcrmann, ’25, of Spring Valley, paid Tutor R. Hillemann, ’25, a short call on the morning of November 9.

—Pres. E. E. Kownlke. '08, of Watertown, who attended the Lawrence-Northwestern game at Appleton on November 10, de­ Iivered a sermon al Mi. Olive’s Church on the following day.

—We announce the marriage of Rev. Carl Bolle, ’21, of St. Paul, to Miss Winifred Reichmuth of Minneapolis, on August 6.

—Edmund Leyrer, e ’30，is attending the Concordia Seminary at Springfield, Illinois.

“Hoeret，hoeret! in Thiensville baut man uns ein neues Seminar, und wir sollen zu Ostern schon dahineinziehen” sagt Sam. Wie herrlich ist die Zukunft anzushen! Bald, bald werden wir nicht mehr von unsern alten grauen Waenden umgeben werden, sondern es wird alles neu sein. .Waeren wir doch schon da! Was? hoere ich da jemancl clurch seinen zukuenftigen Bart etwas brummen?—Wahrlich! Was ist ihnen? wollen Sie, Senior, nicht ins neue Seminar ? “Jawohl，aber wenn’s erst Ostern gescheheh soli, dann lieber nicht mehr; denn Urrizug ist boese Medizin fuer Schluss-exaniina.” Du sage mal, was willst. du dich fuer die. Z?ukunft sorgen ? Wenn die Zeit kommt, wird das Umzugsfieber schon kommen.

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Doch, was ist (las Geheimnis? Das weiss unser Degner von Ixonia: “Geniuetlicliei. Abend!” Hurrah! fuer den Gemuetlichen Abend! Das war einmal ein chip von clem alten Klotz. Diesd ^ charactervollen, farbenreichen Oktoberkostueme! Da entpuppten sich unseresgleichen als Jude, Moore, Moench und Tuerke. (Es gab auch Nonnen in den verschiedenstcn Lebensaltern.) Dann das feste Essen, gespickt mit allerlei historischen REDEN! Hier koennten wir noch lange sitzen bleiben, doch wir muessen eilen.

Weiter gelit’s zum Hauptstueck des Gemuetlichen Abend, Zum lustigen Program, wo auch jeder in die alien froehlichen Studentcnlieder kraeftig1 einstimmte. Hier verlebten wir nun ein paar Stunden, die wir nie vergessen wo lien. Nur schade, class wir die gelungenen Bilder der Corona hier nicht geben koennen. So verhallte voraussichtlich der letzte Gemuetliche Abend in diesem Semmar. Vivat sequens!

Viele von uns sind schon weitgekommen in der Askese und ueben uns aus Gesundheitsgruenden vorzueglich im Basketball.

Bis jetzt sind unsere Spieler auch unbesiegt g'eblieben (Sie haben naemlich noch keinen Feind geseben; wir zweifeln aber garnicht an ihrer Tapferkeit) und unser Johann Martin Zilz sitzt als Anfuehrer auf seineni Triumpfwagen und spielt seine Truempfe aus.

Hoffentlich wirft ihm kein Gegner Steine auf seinem Wagen.

Bis jetzt hat sich die Corona im allgemeinen guter Gesundhcit erfreut. Nur wenige mussten Krankheits halber Stunden vermissen. Mocge nun das kalte wetter auch keine groesseren Luecken in unseren Klassen verursachen! Das sich noch ein paar Weisheitszaehne regen werden, ist freilich unter den Umstaenden nicht zu vermeiden. Wir sind auch alle dankbar, class Direktor Koehler am ersten Oktober wieder soweit von seiner Krankheit hergestellt war, class er seinen Unterricht ununterbrochen geben konnte.

Im Oktober haben uns eine ganze Anzahl Pastoren und Lehrer besucht, von denen wir hoffen, dass sie unsere Gesellschaft bald wieder suchen. Z. B., an einem fruehen Alontagmorgen strich zu unserem grossen surprise Pastor Rudolf Horhimus, ganz von Surprise, Nebraska, (lurch unsere Hallen- Als er unsere verbluefften und neugierigen Gesichter sahe, loeste er unsere Spannung durch folgenden Bescheid: 4Tni just visiting in Milwaukee.” .Pastor Otto Henning war ein zweiter, der seine alten Freunde h.ier durch seine Gegenwart erfreute. Pastor Hennings Gemeinde lieg^t mitten in Wisconsins Wonderland oder Cherryland, etwa acht Meilen noerdlich von Sturgeon Bay. Tourists welcome! .Pastor Adolf Haase von St. Paul besuchle unsere Klassen, speiste mit uns und hielt uns auch eine seiner beliebten Tischreden.

Und dann war auch unser letztjaehriger Gottliold Zimniermann, von Spring Valley, hier,—Need we say any more?

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Addendum \\Mr koennen dies nicht in Druck gehen lassen, ohne zu berichten uebcr ein Unicum in unserer unmittelbaren Mitte, einen zukuenftigen Meister in der Poolkunst, Herrn Rckow. Pool ist jetzt schon scin unbestrittenes Fach. Er ist so verliebt in unseren alten Pooltablc, class es ihn aergert, class die Woche statt sieben nicht zchn Ud)ungstage von je achtzehn Stunden an diesem Tische al)giht. 'Venn das kein Meister werden will!

For weeks previous to October 31, the ten cent stores and novelty shops have shown black cats and witches and pumpkin faces to tempt the eyes of the world of children and to draw their noses flat to the cold plate-glass of the show windows. It is a time the children look forward to as their only chance to do all the pranks they would otherwise be spanked for. However, it being very difficult for some to detach themselves from their childhood. one oftentimes sees creatures of almost incredible size and a decade or even two beyond their rattles, eager for the night when the law connives at tomfoolery. Few of these midnight revellers think back farther than two or three hallowe'ens. But hallowe^n is a somewhat _ older festival. Like many of the feasts in the church this one also goes back to heathen times. The word itself comes through the old English Catholic Church and* means the eveni before Allhallowmas or All Saints' Day. But Allhallows Eve far older than the Catholic Church. It is said that the Druids lit 182

bonfires, that is, probably, they performed a human sacrifice on that night in thanksgiving for the harvest. We can imagine Stone­ henge alive with barbarians in masks and indigo paint, dancing women and dancing men, hoary bearded, white-robed Druid priests here and there and the lights of small fires dotting the plain. In the middle of the Stonehenge circle burns a great fire on the mono­ lith altar. Upon a sudden, the priests demand silence, and a death­ like silence ensues. The moon has reached a certain place in the heavens, and the victim, a girl, is stabbed and chained to the altar with the loud chanting of the high-priest- It was also Druidic be­ lief that on this night the god of death, Shanilina, called together all the wicked souls that had in the past year inhabited the bodies of animals. After the Romans came to England they combined this old barbarian festival with their Feast of Pomona, on which friends assembled and cracked nuts and played at apple-bobbing.

In parts of Scotland and Ireland the vigil of Shanihna, the lord of death, is still kept occasionally.

In America this evening has become a lime for revelry and deviltry. Here the cows were found tethered to people’s front porches, a light wagon found ; perch on the top of the infirmary, one of the barracks-classrooms took on the appearance of a verita­ ble barn-yard, and chickens, corn stalks and an old rain barrel were not lacking. To heighten the effect, the campus in front of the administration building was as inviting as Riverside park, being equipped with a slide, benches and statuary; and the halls in the dormitory were decked out in holiday fashion with white crepe paper of the cheaper grade.

However, harmless as these pranks may seem they majr be­ come insults and should not be. Especially should property not be.destroyed, for that is base vandalism, and civilization, one should think, would hold itself aloof from the works of barbarians.

On the 18th of October, the United States Navy Band played to full houses in the auditorium, both afternoon and eveningr. One mus.t admire the skill and artistry shown by these government organizations. A few years ago we had occasion to hear the Marine iBand here, and certain strains still run through our mind. It1 seems, though we can give no reason, that the impression made by the first band was somewhat better, though perhaps only a trifle better than this. The jazz orchestra seems to be influenced some­ what by the otherwise classical pursuits of its members and did not. show that skill, .which one finds with orchestras that make it their sole work to interpret jazz. However, we are certain that 183

the audience enjoyed the programme immensely. And no wonder when such classics as Offenbach’s “Orpheus in the Underworld,” a burlesque on the Olympians, like Lucian’s "Sale of Lives” in literature, "The Flying Dutchman,M where one hears the wind and the sea. the exerpts from one of last season’s most popular musical comedies, “Rio Rita," and Saint Saen’s Dance Macabre,- which closes with the rattle of skeletons, scampering into the graveyards, 一no wonder we must enjoy it, when such pieces are rendered with artistic touch.

Tlie Xylophone solo, “Second Valse，” l)y Godard, “Jolly Fel­ lows/' by Vollstedt, the humoresque, “The Blind Mice,” and the scenes from Pagliacci will not be soon forgotten.

Tlic dead ness of the concert season here has forced students to look toward Milwaukee for entertainment along these lines. Quite a few of us looked forward to the “'Merchant of Venice” presenta­ tion at the Davidson, but met with, disappointment when the actor of Shvlock, Mr. Arliss, took sick about a month ago and the play was cancelled indefinitely. Gounod’s “Faust” played at the Audi­ torium on the 16th also attracted a number of the students-

Now that the majority has accustomed itself to the sight of a young man with a neat cane in his hand, which adds not only to the dignity of his bearing, but gives him a certain amount of com­ fortable support and the convenience of a ready weapon in the case of a sudden onslaught of his foes, the people have another new one to acquaint themselves with; the freshmen are wearing green caps and besides they will button, that is, they will touch the imagi nary button they have at the lop of those tokens of wisdom to the Sophomores of the College. All that will not be so hard to accustom one’s self to if one remembers that g reen is the color to represent certain scholastic or academic attainments or a lack of such.

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The Carthage Collegian of Carthage, Illinois, is a lively jour­ nal. The news is presented with plenty of “punch.” One column, “the Scrap Heap,” is cleverly written. It not too gently “razzes” the weaknesses—mostly amourous―of the unfortunate students who managed to attract attention to themselves. One can’t but feel a twinge of pity for the unfortunates. Most likely this column takes the life out of the campus-gossips, for how can one gossip about something that is openly, perhaps bitingly published in the paper?

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onit The Spectator, by Concordia Teachers College, River Forest, Illinois, is a dignified and conservative paper. There is none of the popular and often tiresomely blatant “pep” here. Two columns which deserve special notice are “President’s Column,and “Opin­ ions.”

College Chips, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, is a good ex­ ample of a good college paper. It offers a variety of things and .as a consequence of not being solely a local news bulletin, it is of inler-collegiate interest. Tlie joke column, “Splinters,” scintillates with original humor. Nothing cut and dried is offered.

Commonwealth College, Mena, Ark., has modified its consti­ tution to permit student participation in school government.’ All third year students are taken into the association which controls this unique institution. At present there are as many students as ' faculty members in this governing- body. Their say is final. Any student who has given two years of satisfactory work is given the same authority as a Ph.D. And by satisfactory work is meant not a high average of grades, hut simply continuous progress in those lines of study selected 1>\ llic student and a certain reasonable effi­ ciency in chopping w- - ■('：. building houses, or washing overalls. ―New Student.

細iimcs Ripon 12; Northwestern 0 )Ve are informed that Coach Doehling told his team, before sending them into action, that, if Ripon scored two or three touchuowns in the first quarter, they would encounter no further dif¥i186

culties; if, on the other hand, Ripon failed in this, they would meet stiff opposition. Our opponents did not cross our goal line in the first minules of the contest (in fact, they barely squeezed in a touch down shortly before the end of the first half) ; they had a hard fight in hand. We agree with Coach Doehling that our defeat and poor showing can often be explained psychologically.

The game opened with Ripon receiving the kick-off and re­ turning the ball to mid-fielcl. On the first play Martin, star Ripon quarterback, made his longest run of the game of about thirty yards. A few more line plunges and end runs brought the “Redmen” to within five yards of our goal. There our line held on four consecutive downs. It was the deciding moment; henceforth, the “Redmen” found no little difficulty in advancing the ball. In short, although Ripon outplayed us in the first half, they could only cross our goal once and that late in the half by means of a pass.

The second half, if we exclude the last few minutes, was clearly ours. Three times the Lutherans threatened to score. Shortly before the close the “Redmen” cinched the game by a long pass to Martin, resulting in a touchdown. Relieved from the tension to which he liad been subjected the entire last half, Coach Doehling now sent in a string of substitutes.

To mention any individual as the star were injustice to the other ten participants, since all played well. To comment on the excellent work of Haefner is superfluous; the “Sentinel” and others have taken that matter in hand. We admired Stuhr's sure tackling at safety.

The Ripon students displayed good sportsmanship. If any unsportsmanlike conduct was accorded us, it was from other than students, as, for an instance, our second string men and. substitutes were constantly subjected to a hail of some kind of pellets, shot at them from no other than a locustlike swarm of boy scouts, those model youths of America. Evidently they were admitted free and showed their appreciation by thus constantly harassing the enemy.

Or were they doing a “good deed?” 一Ripon Northwestern一 Rutz ____ ______ Smith •R.E. Schweppe . __________ Pine -R.T. Schultz -•… ___ Richardson —_R. G, Leerssen .. _________ Hein ...C.Bergfeld . _________ Hanke Schaefer ... ________Antrose —L.T_____ — Williams Fritze ....... ____L^E_____ Stuhr ____ ■一 Martin Sauer, A.. .一 Heinz —1 ----.—-.

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Milton 18; Northwestern 6 The contemplation of this debacle has failed to arouse enthu­ siasm in anyone excepting the Milton sport’s editor, who, no doubt, considered the game only in the light of victory or defeat for his Alma Mater, without for a moment reflecting what a sacl spectacle of football it must have seemed to any impartial follower of the game. ’Hiat sanguine editor states in his publication that North­ western outplayed Milton during the entire first half, and judging only from llie score (luring that half (6-0), the assertion will appear quite plausible. Any observer will maintain the contrary. Prob­ ably this, however, is only Milton editor’s manner of radiating a beam of consolation and cheer over our presumable gloom, resulting from this humiliation. This princely attitude of granting us more than is our due is not appreciated, The mere facts arc these. Only during the opening minutes of the game, when ihc Lutherans by means of a series of line smashes and short passes crossed the opponent’s goal line, did we outplay the visiting- team. During the remainder of the half they were usually in our territory.

The second half was n disgrace. Our men seemed to have lost all aggressiveness and to be completely demoralized. The Milton backs repeatedly tore through our line for fifteen or twenty yards, scoring three touchdowns. One alumnus, a spectator of most of the games in recent years, says it was the worst football he has ever witnessed on our gridiron. We agree with him.

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ball mentor whose team hitherto had defeated the North Dakota “Aggies,” Oshkosh Normal, and the Michigan “B” squacl will ex­ plain why the university team did not pile up a big score. In the first half, when the university men scored their three touchdowns. they had the edge on us. The second half was in our estimation evenly played, with Northwestern making the only serious threat to score, when Coach Eickman's squacl lost the ball on clowns on the university’s ten-yard line- When the final whistle blew, we again were in possession of the ball, after a long run and a short pass, on the opponents* thirty-yard line. Though the university team often made short gains, their fast and hard plunging backs never broke loose for any long gains. Our tackling and defensive play was good. The players and the saner spectators have reaped much confidence and encouragement from this game.

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Iyi the first quarter neither team made a first down, nothing so ‘*easy” about that even from the Appleton point of view. The sport editors called this period of the game slow and uninteresting ； it’s true, there were no sixty-yard runs, in which the common spec­ tator takes much delight; nevertheless, it was good football. The opening minutes of the second quarter continued on the same tenor, until Northwestern fumbled on their thirty-yard line. A Lawrence player recovered the ball. No need of plunging through the line or adYapcing off tackle or around the ends. Once in our territory the Vikings completed a pass (those infernal passes have ever been our downfall), bringing them close to the end zone. A five-yard penalty on Northwestern, and a few line smashes did the rest. Soon 189

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We wonder if the whole thing had been so “easy” if Lawrence had not thus “easily” got hold of the ball in passing territory. We doubt it.

In the last half， we concede, the Vikings in spite of many substitutions in general outplayed us. But then their men were fresh and some of those “subs” might well compare with the regulars.

Again this seemingly ineradicable inferiority complex, which be­ fore the game had been downed, came into the ascendancy and ex­ ercised its baleful inlluence. The fourteen-point lead explains their superiority in the second half.

Much was said previous to the game as well as after of the maimed condition of the Viking squad. It was observed though that all these presumably injured stars started the game minus any sign of limp; Northwestern, though they did not proclaim it to the four winds, also had its injured players. Coach Rasmussen’s outspokenness calls for a similar frankness on our part. Haefner, of whose playing two years ago at fullback, ex-coach Catlin spoke so highly, left the sick room to play the last half after Kettenacker was injured. A. Sauer and Schwerin did not enter the game. Of our linemen several were limping.

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Since there is but a small percentage of the students which was old enough to vote in the president：al election, the dormitory expressed its opin'on by a straw vote, November 6. Feeling had been running high for several weeks. Hoover gathered 84 votes and “Schniidt” 70. Will Rogers, the “Bunkless” candidate, ran lip. 15 votes, most of which were cast on first floor. ;\fter-lhe-election sentiment is that “everything will be the same，” whereas if Smith had won, it would have been interesting to follow and study po­ litical moves. It may be of interest to note that our student-bQd president, Oscar Hanimen, gathered about six hundred votes in t primary election for sheriff of Washington County. Oscar’s recent removal from Kewaskum to West Bend would not disqualify him for the race for office, but he prefers football and the pursuit of the study of history to furnishing lodging for bootleggers.

The jinx has been working overtime on Hugo Fritze. When .he returned to college in September, he was annoyed by about a half dozen boils on his neck. After these had 1：cen taken care of, lie spent five days in the sick room ridding himself of a cold. When he was just entering the football game with the Wisconsin “B” team, November 2, he broke a blood vessel in his leg and as. a resuit spent three more days in the sick room. In the game with Lawrence College at Appleton, November 10, he was kicked in the head and did not accompany the rest of the squad back to Watertown. We leave to Fritze the task of explaining whether it is some tenacious nemesis or just an imp who is driving- his uncalled-for glee beyond anything sportsmanlike that makes Fritze the great­ est “Bad Luck King” since the days of Fenske.

Siegler returned from the sick room, November 10, after beingtreated for nearly everything that can indispose a leg. His com191

plication consisted of a strained muscle, a “Charley Horse,” a blood clot, and water on the knee.

Those two alliterative football players, Reuschel and “Red” Rossin, recently had their faces lifted. The process of lifting a face is “Doctor” Sach’s prescribed method of treating a broken nose.

On October 29, Alfred and Philip Sauer accompanied their parents to Milwaukee to help celebrate the silver wedding anniver­ sary of their uncle, Hugo von RohrThe Freshmen are appearing with green caps. In order to establish a precedent, they decided to salute to the Sophs until Thanksgiving. A tug of war or some other contest between them and the Sophs will decide whether or not they will salute two weeks in spring. As they arc undecided what nature of contest to stage, may we suggest a mud fight ?

The ncarncss of Christmas was brought to light by the arrangements of the Vesuvius Club for the annual Christmas play.

Oscar Linstcdt, cx ’31，visited at Northwestern, October 29.

Clarence Macligan left his studies and, according to the most reliable information, is married. Beside that he is in St. Paul, we could learn nothing of him. Harry Frank also quit and is attend­ ing; Whitewater Normal. The departure of these two somewhat wrecked their peaceful home which was room 70. Harry’s brother; Phillip, stepped into the paternal care of “Red” Goetz, and room 70 will be made a bed room.

“Zip” Hess took the Seniors out to supper, November 2.

Mr. R- J. Kocpscl of Coleman, Wisconsin, visited his sons Gerlihrcl and W altc*r, October 24.

The student body as a whole observed or celebrated Hallowe’en in a little more than the usual fashion this year. It is useless to mention all the pranks, if everything that was done can be called such. The Juniors guarded the bleachers as usual and no casual­ ties were reported.

Schewe, Heyn, Buenger, and Engel sang at the church serv­ ices at Lebanon, Sunday, October 21. After the services they at­ tended what the last named, Mr. Engel, called an old time wedding.

The football team saw the game between Wisconsin and Ala­ bama, November 3. Several other students hiked to Madison to see the game, all not being so favored as to receive an invitation to the game.

The Freshmen had a free day, November 10. They spent the vacation in varied ways. Kaspar slept. About six went to Appleton to see the football game. Some of these returned the same day and some did not. Kasch and Peters visited friends in Valpariso, Indiana.

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Kettenacker paid the price for popularity, November 11, on the event of his birthday. Tt is estimated that sixty persons shook hands with him and tendered congratulations during the ten mmutes he was in for supper- Bergfekl celebrated his birthday the next day. The Juniors were very liberal, but Prof. Westerliaus did not speak highly of staging a birthday party in his logic class.

One morning we were pleasantly surprised when our eyes espied several new pieces of furniture. A verv_ com fortable leather davenport and a spacious leather chair have greatly improved the Girls’ Rooms. Our gratitude and appreciation is extended to Dr. Ott for these thoughtful donations.

Needless to say, the davenport was quickly examined and util­ ized. During their first free period some of the “preps” acquainted themselves with its utmost possibilities. They worked diligently lo discover the intricate mechanism so characteristic of a clavenport.

Recently the girls held a business meeting for the purpose of furthering plans for a Christmas party. The Entertainment Com­ mittee will be awaiting the helpful suggestions that invariably fail to be forthcoming.

Lately, some have cursorily mentioned an appearance of con­ fusion in the “prep” room. The situation became so deplorable ' that the janitor was forced to complain. Upon investigation the rumors, \yhich had been prevalent, took the form of reality. Glenna Rasmussen voluntarily expressed her blameworthiness. She de­ fended herself saying that she was practicing the art of interior decoration. As Glenna's shortness of stature handicapped her, Ruth Mayer overcame this deficiency. Their amateurish attempts were rather disastrous to the room.

Helen Prentiss and Ruth Mayer report that on October 2, the water was still warm enough for enjoyable swimming.

Some of the girls visited Milwaukee this last month- Dorothy Groth transacted business there in the form of fall shopping. Alice Dierker and Dorothy Pine, a former student, visited Emma Timmel at the Milwaukee Hospital.

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Miss Stiemke and Miss Ruth Steuber of the Lutheran High School at Milwaukee, visited classes with some of the girls. Cath­ erine Gormley enjoyed the visit of her sister, Helen, who also at­ tended classes.

4 Eleanor Stern observed her birthday this month. A number of her classmates and friends helped her celebrate. Games and contests furnished the amusements.

Gertrude Wendland observed Hallowe’en by giving a dinner party.

The notes of last month contained a misrepresentation. Phyl­ lis Weeks, in an injured tone, exclaimed that she is a loyal resident of North Dakota, and not of South Dakota.

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It seems as though the election got some of our Sextaners all confused. One of them had heard so much about Hoover and Prosperity that he came to me one day and said: “Say, I thought Hoover was running with Curtiss.” ♦

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Science Teacher: What^ heat ?

Schramm: Hot air. ♦ 本本 Farmer’s Son: My dad’s got a hen that lays an egg every day.

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Preacher's Son: That’s nothing, my father lays a cornerstone every week. " * ^ * Teacher: Where is your brother today ?

Pupil: He stayed at home; he’s got the hives.

Teacher: Well, \ve，ll have to put him in B class then. 氺

“The state is sending my brother East ?

“Oratorical contest?”

“No, grand larceny.”

I spent ten dollars on a canary last week.”

“That’s nothing- I spent fifty on a lark.”

Lady: I would hire you if I was sure you wouldn’t take anything.

Tramp: O, you can trust me, lacly. I worked in a bath house for five years and never took a bath. 氺氺氺 Pa: Is New York the next stop?

Porter: Yes, sail，brush you off, sah?

Pa: No，I’ll get off myself. 本氺本 Mistress: Has the electric iron I bought last week proved sat­ isfactory ?

Servant: I should say it has, ma’am. It has held the heat all this time. 氺氺氺 Young1 Lawyer (addressing jury) : Unfortunately the prisoner has always had a weakness of relying upon thieves and scoundrels.

He puts implicit faith in you, gentlemen.

Paul: How is it you let your wife have her say? .Joe: I once tried to stop her. ♦

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Policeman (calling up precinct) : A man has been robbed down here, and I’ve got one of them.

Chief: Which one have you?

Policeman: The man that was robbed. ♦ 氺* Po: How do you like my latest photograph ?

Tato: It’s rather flattering isn’t it?

Po: Why do you say that?

Tato: Well, you are shown with your hand in your pocket.

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I Little Mabel: I gave our sick little pig some sugar.

Mother: What did you do that for?

Little Mabel: To make it well. Haven’t you heard of sugarcured hams ?

A.: How gracefully Miller eats corn on the cob.

B.: Yes, but he ought to. He’s a piccolo player. 氺氺氺 J5ozo : Believe me, I make other people sweat to bring pie a living.

13imho : I'd be ashamed to admit thatBozo: Why, there's no harm in running a Turkish bath, is there?

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A CHRISTMAS SONNET begins to fall In winter, when the Upon the ground, wlien doubting; souls may sigh To see how quickly charms of fall must die And yield themselves to winter’s frosty call, For who can see lmw earthly things will pall And not conclude that these but testify That life’s fair flower must also droop and die, And death l)e end and content of our call: Then God from heaven above to earth has sent His only Son, who nil ()ur sins to bear Was born of humble birth in Bethlehem, That hearts of men in joyful mood give vent To Christmas cheer, and with new hope prepare To make the Lord their royal diadem.

M. D., ’32.

SANTA CLAUS It )yas Christmas Eve in the city of New York.

A light snow was falling. The windows of the large departrpent stores were decorated in a flare of green, red, silver, gold, lighted Christmas trees, and shiny toys. Here and there on the 197

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Among the latter was a young man, Thomas Clarke.

He crept as closely as possible to the buildings，as though to avoid coming in contact with the crowd. Nevertheless, he observed the people closely as they passed him. Here was an aged man, his eyes twinkling, his pockets bulging with boxes and packages. There was a young woman, her face shining, her arms filled with odd bundles and packages. Before him was a group of children, their faces pressed against a window in which a countless number ot toys was on display.

All were happy except him.

Suddenly, he came face to face with a gray-haired woman, who had a placid, happy countenance. She was carrying only a hymn book, evidently on her way to church. He stopped and stared.

For one moment he had thought it was his own mother, the re­ semblance had been so great. Then, his face took on a cold expression, and he sneered. He was tliaiik fill that his mother _______was not living to see him as he was tonight. For one fleeting moment he saw his mother again on her way to church on a Clir istmas _Eve long ago with him at her side. But many years had elapsed since then.

His thoughts returned to his plans for the night. Tonight he planned to make a good haul. It would be easier, he thought. than on other nights. Most of the homes of the wealthy families would be deserted, for almost everyone would go somewhere to celebrate the evening_ It was very dark, as Tom crept through the basement window of the home of one of New York’s wealthy citizens. A light was burning in the hall, and in the library a cheerful fire was crackling： ■‘ on the hearth. He found the family silver and hastily put some ot the most costly articles in his pockets. Whatever he could find that appeared worth while to him, he took. He was on the point of leaving, satisfied with the loot he had taken, when he heard a child calling, "Santa Claus. Santa Claus, is that you?”

Tom did not answer, but stood still. Then, the door opened, and a little golden-haired boy rushed across the dimly lighted room to the place, where he stood in the shadows. uAh, Santa Claus. I just knew you’d come. That’s why I didn’t go to sleep. My nurse, Miss White, thought I was asleep, so she slipped out of the house for a few moments/’’ Suddenly the boy noticed that the man was dressed. like anyone else. He puckered his nose, as though he were going to cry.

“Or aren’t you Santa Claus?” lie queried. ..

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my red coal and boots yet, because I didn’t know that the little

boy was going to l)e awake.”

• “Ah, Santa Claus. I just couldn’t go to sleep. Miss White told me the most beautiful story tonight, when she put me to bed.

I made up my mind to tell it to Santa Claus when he came. Come, and I’ll tell it to you.”

The little boy led the man by the hand to the fireplace and bade him to sit clown. Tom had entered upon the game, so there was nothing else to do. hut to follow the boy. He sat in the chair drawn before the fire and the child cuddled up in his lap. Sitting thus, the l)oy told the thief the age-old story of the birth of Christ.

Of course, Tom had heard it before, hut hearing the story told by these lips left a different impression on him.

“And that is why von give us gifts. Isn’t it, Santa Claus?

Because God gave us His Son Jesus as a gift.” ''Yes,'' faltered Tom, “that is true.”

Wasn’t that a wonderful God though,” mused the child, “and Miss White says lie is still the same. He loves everyone, she says.”

“D<) you think that he does?” questioned Tom. '*Ah yes, I know he does. He loves everyone, even the thieves and robbers.” .“How do you know that?”

"Ah. Miss White told me another story once about this same Jesus, when he was old. You know he died hanging on a cross.

Wasn't iliat a terrible death ? Well, she said that there was a man, wliu a thief on the cross next to his. This man was sorry for what he had done so lie asked Jesus to forgive him before he died, aiul Jesus did. lie will forgive anyone, if they’re sorry, and lie'll love tliem too.”

•负 The room was silent except for the ticking of the clock in the liall. Tom was thinking. The child was content on the lap of Santa Claus.

Finally the bo)，ventured, “Santa Claus, Santa Claus, where are my toys?”

“My dear boy, they are outside. I was examining the room to see just where I should put the Christmas tree. I think you had better go to bccl now though, because I usually don’t allow little boys to watch me. When you're asleep, I'll be back, I must go now, for I have so many homes to visit yet tonight.”

The child obeyed immediately, after saying “Good night” to his supposed Santa Claus.

Tom quickly replaced the silver he had taken and slipped out of the house.

To think that a child should tell him those things. As he walked and planned for the future, the last strains of “Silent Night” nielte^l away in the night.

L. Steffen, ’32.

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INFORMATION PLEASE! Imagine yourself once more an inexperienced ,nervous little Sextaner entirely ignorant of the customs and traditions of our college. Would you not desire to be acquainted with the place when you arrived ? I can see your eyes wander to the ceiling1, They tell me that you art- thinking of those doubtful first days, If you only had known more about school! You would not, for for example, have run clown to room 8 to ask a certain student down there for a bed stretcher; you would not have gone over to Dr. Otl, at the advice of a group of upper classmen, to ask for a pill for your headache; you would not have gone to the gas station after some red kerosene for your monitor's red lamp. Yes, one must really have more definite information to act intelligently.

The only authentic information available at present is the de­ scription given in the college catalog. But this account is far too brief—and unromantic. In consideration of this need I should like to suggest that something like the following be put into our catalog: “The six o’clock bell rings (at six o’clock, by the way), and all the boys promptly leap out of bed anil hasten to the wash room to avoid the rush. The ruddy glow on their beaming countenances testifies to a thoroughly wide-awake state of mind. With almost breathless haste they go to their rooms, dress, tidy everything up for the clay, sweep the room spick and span, and then review quickly their preparations for the clay’s classes.

(Here let us in all fairness make a concession. Lest I be ac­ cused of picturing the procedure of the day as too idealistic, I shall mention the one blot on the record of our school. Once upon a time there was a Sextaner up here who had not yet been fully im­ pressed with the traditions and ideals of the place- One morning he forgot to sweep beneath the radiator. Of course he was imme­ diately shipped home, but the blot still stands upon our record.)

"As soon as the breakfast bell rings the students promptly file into the dining hall and stand at attention behind their chairs until grace has been said. The only sound during1 the entire meal is the clinking of spoons and forks (these latter are used to eat the usual fried eggs and bacon).

“After breakfast the boys make their beds, brush their teeth, and once more look over their preparation for the day. At this time the tutor (whose duty it is to give advice on all matters philo­ sophic and otherwise), makes his rounds to reassure himself that his boys are all in good health. If any are ailing with a sickness so severe as to deprive them of the opportunity to attend classes， the tutor generously supplies them with castor oil.

"At 7.30 classes begin. Only one bell rings between classes, Its purpose is, of course, to rouse the students out of the deep ob200

livion of concentrated study. All the classes are conducted briskly and with perfect order. Each student enters the room promptly, lays his written assignment on the desk of the professor, and quietly takes his seat. What a beautiful sight it is to see those neat brown note books flash open all at the same time, to see every hand raised when the professor gives his daily oral quiz!’’

(Concerning this oral quiz, by the way, the students decided in the beginning of the year l)y a unanimous vote of the student body that a daily written examination was the most efficient inode of procedure for classroom mark; but the faculty, contrary to custom, overruled the decision of the students and now use oral quizzes mstead.)

“A few moments after class lias begun the professor becomes disgusted at his inability to ask the class a question' which all cannot answer, and lie usually leaves the students alone in the room for individual study. During- such a period the use of fountain pens has been prohibited, because the noise of a pen scratching across paper causes a great disturbance. *'The five recitation hours have passed as though they were but a few minutes. Now the dinner bell rings, and all the boys march into the dining- hall—promptly, for they want their meals to be piping hot: besides, everyone is eager to be the first at his table so that he may have ihc privilege of bringing in the water from the pump outside- A few moments after grace has been said some one from each table goes to the counter to bring more of any food that the table yet desires. During meals everyone iis careful to pay particular attention to the wants and conveniences of his table mates, and the strictest rules of etiquette are enforced.

There is no need of a study period in the afternoon or in the evening, for the dormitory at all times is shrouded with an air of quiet and study- A period from 3.45 to 6.00 is set aside, during which all students arc required to leave their books and their study rooms to get out in the fresh air or gymnasium. At all times in the afternoon and evening the college library is open for all stu­ dents who wish to do research work. The library is always crowdwith studious looking young men working among huge volumes ot. source material. It is certain that the fiction books in the li­ brary will have to 1)e sold to some second hand book store and a great number of encyclopedia and reference books bought in their place, So great are the demands of the students upon the library!

“In consideration of the red-blooded appetite of the boys after two hours of muscle straining exercise, a very ample supper .is served. The course is composed largely of request dishes; that is, any student may, on the day before, order what he wishes for supper. " A half hour after supper is devoted to music and the cultiva201

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tion of the Fine Arts. This period of time may also be used by the students to call on their professors and discuss with them the weak­ nesses of the lectures given in the respective classes that day. The professors heartily welcome such criticisms and certainly have im­ proved under their directing influence.

“Then everyone attends chapel. If, however, anyone should have a legitimate excuse—such as, for instance, that he was con­ centrating： on his Greek so deeply that he did not hear the bell, or that lie was clown to the public library to get a copy of “The American Coiiiinonwealth,” by Bryce, and his watch stopped while he was there—in sucli a case his absence will be cheerfully excused• In that event, it is customary among students to read five chapters of the New Testament immediately upon arriving at the dormitory. ‘.Nine-thirty is bed time. The tutor visits every room to make 1 sure that everyone has ceased to study. With rare exceptions, no i studying is permitted after 9.30—so solicitous are the author it les to protect their boys against a too severe mental strain!”

This is a typical day at Northwestern College. You will say, perhaps, that the procedure of the clay is not at all uncommon and the behavior of the students not any better than might be expected.

I shall answer that the clay’s program is by far not truly repre­ sentative of the ideals of the school. The high water mark of school spirit is reached in our outside activities, and the greatest of them is football! I tell you, it is an inspiring sight to see the enthusiasm of the students before, after, and during a football game. Sometime before a game the entire student body spontane­ ously, without an announcement in the dining hall, conies together for a pep meeting. So vociferous are the cheers that all the chapel windows must be opened to avoid breaking： the panes- The team is deeply moved—almost to the point of tears, in fact. During the game every student is expected to get a sore throat yelling■: he is forever looked down upon if he does not. It is a peculiar thing about the cheering at a game that never once is any voice lifted up to criticise a mistake. After every game, win or lose, the enthusiastic students rush out on the gridiron and carry the players on their shoulders to the dressing room. A brilliant spectacle, I say, and one which shows the true mettle of our school !

G. R.,，32.

WEIHNACHTSZEIT. Der Monat Dezember war bereits begonnen. Mit ihm, war rechtes Winterwetter eingetreten, heulender Wind, beiszende Kael.te, sausender Sclinee unci krachendes Eis. Welch eine Freude dies bereitete! Die Stimmung eines jeclen war ermuiitert, tind keiner liesz es sich gefallen, dasz er drinnen bleiben mnszte. Alle, beide 202

jung und «ilt, bewegten sich frisch und eifrig drauszen in der reinen klaren Luft. Vielc―es waren Ijesonders die Jnengeren—taumelten stundenlang im Schnee herum : andere- spazierten oder lie fen clurch den dichten schneel)edecktcn Wald, verfolgten die Spuren dcr Hasen und Eichkaetzchcn, bis sie endlich mucde, aber (loch erheiterter Gesinnung nach ihren Zimmern zurucck kehrtcn; die ineisten jedoch verbrachten diese Freuclenzeit auf clem Eise; wie Pfeile schoszen die Knaben und Maedchen auf ihren Schlittschuhen hier hin und dort hin, in die Kreuz und die Quer- Weithin ertoentc das freudige Jubeljauchy.en der Menj>c winimclnder Schlittschuhlaeufer.

Im Wohngchaeude war das Lcben nicht minder unruhig unci regungsvoll. Mil enmiedeten Koer])ern a1)er recht erfrischt betraten die meisten nach eini^cr Zeit ill re heimischen, warmen Studierziminer: sie machlon sicli mil neuem Mut ueber die Buecher cnisiger, damit clic jetzt vollbrachte Arher unci studierten beit sie nicht nach den Ferien zu kuemmern brauche.

Ja, die lielien W'cihnachtsferien waren nahe herangerueckt und halfen auch nicht wenii^ mit, das rege Leben unter den Menschen 7.u erweckcMi. Das hrachte cine andere Beschaeftigung mit sich; nianch einer hecilk* sich nun. passende Weihnachtsgeschenke zu l>csorgen. Fuct tkis klcine Kind zu Hause kaufte man ein Pueppclien :、venii as auch I'cinahe wertlos war, es sollte und wuerde doch auch clem Kleinen einc gruszc Freudc bereiten. Dem Onkel wurde eine Pfeifc und cine Kannc Tobak ausgesucht, um zu zeigen, dasz man ihn noch nicht ver^essen liatte. Es wiirde von Laden zu Laden gelaufcn, freiulebrin^ende Kleinigkeiten fuer die uebrigen Beliebten zu finden.

So flog die Zcit schnell vorueber, bis endlich der letzte Tag vorhanclen war. Frueh morgens grueszte uns die “band” mit hellklingenden Weihnachtsmelodien. Obwohl es auch frueher als an anderen Morgen war, so standen (loch die meisten auf;一unter diesen waren auch viele der Langschlaefer. Den ganzen Tag sah man ein reg.es Leben : alle waren frohen Herzens und leichten Sinnes. Naclimittags wurde der Baum fuer die Abendfeier geschmueckt. Diese Feier bCvStand aus Singen der Weihnachtslieder und einer Ans])rache.

Nach dem sie 1)eendigt war, machten sich alle fertig, mit dem naechsten Zuge die Heimreise zu beginnen. Da wir kuerzlich vor d〒m Schlusztage zwei heftige Schneestuerme gehabt hatten, waren die Zuege sehr natuerlicli, aber den Schuele1.11，besonders den Juengcren: wider Wunscli und Hoffen, etwas verspaetet. war diese grosze Schar, die zum Hoehepunkt aufgeregt war, in dem Wartezimmer der Station eingedraengt. Da ging es dann bunt her. Die Knaben erfuellten die woblgeheizte Stube 《lurch ihre Zigaretten mit einer clicken Rauchwolke; in einer Ecke wurde gesungen； in einer anderen gesprochen und gelacht; man

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lief herum; obgleich es Schlafzeit war, keiner dachte daran sich auszuruhen; oft wurde hinausgeschaut, ob cler Zug nicht bald kaeme.

Endlich kam die weiszgekappte, einaeugige Lokomotive donnernd angerollt mit ihrer schweren Last von Weihnachtspassagieren und-post- Der Zug war schon geclraengt voll. Als nun aber diese wartencle Studentenmasse eingestiegen war, war kaum noch Platz zu linden, wo einer stehen koennte. Auch hier im Zuge wurde den freudigen Gefuehlen Ausdruck gegeben. Aber das heitere, muntere Leben hielt die uebrign Passagire wach, unterhielt sie, aergerte auch wohl manch eiiien unci liesz nicht nach bis allmaehlicli einer nach dem anderen cler Studenten ausgestiegen war. Je weiter wir fuhren, desto kleiner wurde unsere Schar. Bei dieser Station stieg der eine aus, bei der naechstcn ein andrer. Schliesz lich waren wir nur noch unsere vier, die auf dem Zuge waren. Docli endlich langten auch wir an unser Ziel an. Wir stiegen aus und trennten uns von einander mit einem "Froehliche Weihnachten Es war Dienstag Abend, nachdem viele schlaflose Stunden verlebt waren, und eine weite Reise ueberslanden war, als ich zu Hause anlangte. Aber so bald sollte ich nicht zu Bett. Wir saszen nun spaet auf und fragten und beantworteten Fragen und erzaehlten buntes Allerlei. Endlich brachen wir auf, um uns am naechsten Tag Weiteres erzaehlen zu koennen.

Als ich des Morgens erwachte, laechelie mil* die Sonne freundlich ins Gesicht, Im naechsten Zimmer begrueszte ich meinen Vater: "Guten Morgen!" Als Gegengrusz erwiderte er neckender weise: Guten Tag!” Als ich nun nach unten kam, fand ich den Tiscli bereits gedeckt und hoerte meine Mutter eben der Schwester sagen : *'Ruf den Vater zum Mittagessen!,} Im Gespraech verriet die Mutter so nebenbei, dasz die、weiszen “cookies” in cler gelben Schuessel waeren, dasz in den uebrigen Schuesseln und Gefaeszen die verschiedenen Sorten dunklen “cookies” waeren, dasz der “ca.ndy” links oben sei, dasz neben dem “candy” die Weihnaclitsnuesse ihren Platz haetten.

Am naechsten Abend schon wurde das Kinderfest gefeiert.

Wir Geschwister machten uns fruehzeitig auf und marschierten zur Kirche, indem in der stillen Luft die groszen weichen Schneeflocken leise umherschwebten. Schon von Feme schimmerte der Schein der bunten Lichter cles Christbaums, der drauszen vor der Kirche stand.

Wie herrlich sah nicht dieser Baum aus ! Nebst den farbigen Lichtern waren die Zweige dieser huebschen Tanne nur mit watteweichem glaenzendem Schnee ausgeschmueckt. Wie viel schoener und einfacher war sie doch als der ueberladene Baum, den wir in der Kirche sahen! Von der Spitze bis zum Fusz war kaum von 204

cler herrlichen Pracht dieser Tanne etwas zu sehen. Nur hier unci da guckten einzelne Nadeln der stolzen Tanne hervor. Alles hiug voll von silbernen und goldenen Ketten, rundfoermigen Figuren, kleinen Bildern, Aepfeln, Sueszigkeiten, Nueszen, und sonstigem Schmuck.

Wir batten indessen Platz gefunden und uns hingesetzt. Da kam auch schon die aufgeregte Kinderschar mit roten Wangen.

Wie leuchtcten nicht ill re Augen vor Freude! Ein jeder sagte sein St neck klar unci deutlich her bis auf einige, die nicht die noetige Courage batten. Ihre vielen Lieder sangen sie fein mit ganzem Herzen. Wie nun dieser Gottesdienst, in clem die Kinder die Prediger waren, endlich zu Ende war, 'vurden einige Geschenke, die unter dem Baume lagen, hervor geholt und ausgeteilt. Fuer den Lelirer batten (lie Kinder einen Schirm besorgt und fuer den Pastor eine Lampe. Die Kinder bekamen nun den wohlbekannten Weihnachtssack—wer kennt ilin nicht?—und Geschichten und Bilderbuecher. Sie plaudertcn, sie lachten, sie liefen hin und lier, sie schmeckten von clem aueszen Inhalt der Tute; vor lauter Freude und Krrc^ung wusztcn sic nicht, was zu tun.

Sclilieszlich, wannant(czogen, machten sie sich auf den Heimwcg. Es halte aufgeboert zu schneien und war ein ganz teil kaelter geworden. Der Mond strahlte freundlich von oben auf die Erde niedcr. Da hcultc jetzt der Wind, wo nur wenige Stunden vorher cine Stillc hcrrschle. Der Schnee eilte nun in Wirbeln herum und haeuftc sich auf Stellen. Bis wir nach Hause kamen, waren unsere Nasenspitzen und Wangen erroetet und unsere Augen vom Schnee vollgeblascn.

Nach kurzer Feier wurde nun der Baum besehen, und die reichlichen Gaben wurden ausgepackt und bewundert. Besonders interessant war cs, das Schwesterchen zu beobachten. Was sie nicht alles bekam! Besides Spielzeuge und Kleidungsstuecke. Sie hatte die reichlichsle Bescherung von alien und wohl auch die groeszte Freude.

Da es nun schon spaet war, machten wir uns alle schleunigst zu Bett. Aber lange lag ich noch da und liesz meine Gedanken wandern, dachte zurueck an meine vergangenen Jahre. Meine Freude war grosz, Freude ueber die Freude der Kleinen; und nicht eher schlief ich ein, bis meine Erregung sich gelegt hattei Wie sollte ich nun die uebrige Zeit der Ferien verbringen ?

Unnoetige Frage! ,Am Sonntag in der Kirche wurde ich angeredet. “Auch wieder heim auf Ferien?” Und in kurzer Zeit: “Kannst du Dienstag abend hinueber komnien und Kartenspielen ?’’ “Natuerlich !” Unter solchen und aehnlichen Gesellschaften verbrachte ich manche Stun.de, Einige male aber, weil ich mich nicht wohl fuehlte, wahrscheinlich des vorhergenannlen verratenen Geheimnisses wegen, 205

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Folgendcs bildete die Beschaeftigung der uebrigen Zeit: lange schlafen, tuechtig essen, Buecher lesen, Freunde und Bekannte l)esuchen, Schlittschuh laufen, zur Kirche gehen. Ein Tag folgte deni anderen und scheinend schneller als sonst. Es ging aehnlicb. wie ini Gedichte von den Heinzelmaennchen erzaehlt wire!: “Alles ging rips, raps,” und ehe ich so richtig zur I^esinnung kam, waren die Ferien vollendel.

Und dann soil man noch Lust haben, zum College wieder zurueck zu gehen ♦ ? Aber ich war auf deni unbarmherzigen Zuge; der liesz nicht nach, bis er mich wieder zu rueck gebracht hatte.

Seit deni Tage stelit mir diese Aufgabe bevor, dasz ieh mich wieder an die Buecher gewoehue.

Gesegnetes neues J ahr!

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AN INCIDENT ON THE PACIFIC OCEAN DURING THE WORLD WAR In the early part of the summer of 1917, my father, who was a chaplain in the American army, was ordered from Schofield Barracks, Oahu, Territory of Hawaii, to San Diego, California. He was ordered to leave on a certain date, but he was not told the des­ tination, until he was on the boat and far out at sea. That was during1 the World War, when every man was suspected of being a German spy, and these precautions were taken l^ecause of the fear that there might be German spies among the officers and sol­ diers, who would let some German subniarine know our destination.

When a steamer arrives or departs it is a gala. day at the wharves of Honolulu. The native girls come to the wharves Avith beautiful sweet-scented flowers, Tfiese flowers they wreathe into large chains that are worn around the neck. The wreaths are sold as souvenirs. Here and there are groups of natives who sing and play farewell songs when the boat is ready to leave. Then as the steamer slowly leaves the wharf native boys swim to its side and dive for coins which the passengers throw into the water. All these things and the memories of all the beautiful and romantic places on the island make it a sad farewell.

We had expected to? board a warship, and it gave us a feeling of considerable insecurity to find that our ship was a large gray steamer with a small cannon at the bow and another at the stem, riie high sides of the steamer looked extremely vulnerable and unprotected. Our boat steamed out of the harbor at three o’clock 206

in the afternoon, and we were accompanied by a “wasp” till dark.

The “wasp” was one of the tiny submarine chasers, which were always hovering about the harbor, so that German cruisers could not sneak into the harbor as they had done. The first night the !>oat was all lit uj) and everybody was enjoying the change from land life to ocean life. But from the second night on no one dared to put on an electric light, light a match, or smoke. A German raider was in the Pacific! We all were excited, and at night there was no hand-])laying, no laughing1, no dancing, everyone was in a nervous tension. \Ve went to bed late in the night and then could not sleep. Everybody was supplied with life preservers and was given the number of his life boat. Wc were also given a little boat, drill for extreme necessity.

The fourth clay at sea the cannons were tested. The one at the stern was shot off first. Some persons not knowing what hap­ pened ran out on the deck and thought the ship was sinking, but on seeing what had happened they felt a great deal better. Both cannons were found to l)e in §^oocl condition.

That night, as usiuil, the greater part of the officers and their families were sitting at the rear of the main deck. The officers were boasting wlial tliey would do to the Kaiser and his army if they were only allowed to “get a chance" at them. The ^vomen chimed in with the men and described how cruelly the Belgian women and children were treated by the “dirty Dutch.” Then all of a sudden two immense streams of white lights shone on our group and over the whole ship, shrill loud whistles began to blow, and four long- dark slender guns were trained on our ship, as a cruiser bore down on us. The women screamed and fainted, the children began to cry, and the officers stood with arms raised. The cruiser was going to ram us! No, it swerved and missed our boat by inches, its guns pointed on us, and stopped! Our operator had signalled just in time. ‘’Don’t shoot! Americans V' The Japanese apologized and left. They had intended to rake our deck, if we had not answered.

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“Cut off their heads! Christian dogs I'* Thus spits out Medull ah, Mohammedan chieftain.

It is 731 A, D. The torrent of Mohammed’s zealots has en­ gulfed Spain, gushed over the Pyrenees, and has now inundated Marseilles. Thousands of its citizens have drowned in the flood, a— hundreds have been taken captive. Into the Grand Chamber of Medullah, one of the Arab leaders in the city of Marseilles, have

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been brought the mayor and three other leading citizens of the town. Mcdullah again snaps at them, "Worship Allah, or die V* Again they haughtily refuse. Medullah tears his gown and rages.

Camilar, the town Councilor, falls on his knees and pleads for mercy. Fiery black eyes flash with scorn Oil trembling blue ones.

Then a boot is raised and the spur on its back gashes the Chris­ tian's face from ear to mouth. Even Meclulla.h’s lieutenants gasp in astonishment. But the pool of blood forming at his feet is merely another proof to Medullah that he is doing the will of Allah.

He barks to his men, and the prisoners are led away to be executed.

Medullah stalks to the window, gazes toward Mecca, and “Allah is God, Allah is God, and Mohammed is his prop Allah was certainly smiling on his faithful servant.

During the next afternoon Medullah reclined on his cushions in his Grand Chamber, to rest and to muse over his past victories.

A grim smile overspread his face as he remembered how he had been the first of his tribesmen to scramble up the walls of Seville and thrust the sword of Allah into the defenders; how he hac! dashed up to the towers of Toledo to rescue Ahmed, his superior, from the hands of the townsmen. Then arose visions of the future: soon the sword of Allah would be slashing the Franks into sub­ mission ;then it would cross the Alps, descend into the valley of the Po; yes, it would not be long, and it would be flourished before the gates of Rome itself. Certainly, rich would be the reward of Medullah in Paradise for his zeal for Allah. He arose, faced Mecca, fell on his knees, and again began to pray, “Allah is God, Allah is—” The door of the Grand Chamber was opened. In came two Moors with a monk between them. The latter was carrying a parchment containing one of the letters of St. Paul. Medullah jumped to his feet. Alvier had been caught trying- to flee from Marseilles. Thrusting his face into the Franks, Medullah hissed, “Abominable swine! Perhaps you could give information to your fellcnv curs, so that the sons of Allah might be destroyed? You shall be» cut into a thousand pieces!”

For a moment the blue eyes gazed mildly but fearlessly at the fuming Oriental. Then Alvier began to read his scroll, just as if the. threats of the Moor meant no more to him than a greeting*. So! This Christian mongrel did not fear the wrath of a Mohammedan!

Enraged at the composure of the priest, "Medullah seized the open sheet from hi这 hands, and was about to crumple it, when his eyes fell on the words: “Let him be accursed.” ______ Medullah stopped. He glared at the words, then at Alvier, and again at the words. He wanted to crush the sheet, but his fingers seemed paralyzed. Then his eyes were drawn as if by a

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magnet to read the whole Bible verse. If any man preach any other doctrine than that which we preach, and if he be an angel come down from heaven, let him be accursed.”

“Let him be accursed." What did it mean? Medullah glanced again at the monk, who had stooped to pick up the parchment. At. the sight Medullah recovered himself. Muttering an oath, he crushed the sheet and stamped on it. Then lie ordered the guards to take away the dirty pig and keep him under strict watch. He would soon realize what it meant to insult a Mohammedan.

Medullah went to the window. On the street six of his coun­ trymen were praying, "Allah is God, Allah—(Let him be accursed!)

Medullah ground his teeth. Why did those words again loom be­ fore his mind? Suddenly a pain hit his heart; he knew not why.

But then he began to be angry at himself. Grumbling" another oath, he called himself a fool for having thought about the infidel words. Then, since lie felt tired, he went to bed.

But Medullah could not sleep. Try as he would, he could not blot out from his mind the verse of Holy Writ. Soon he began to tear his bed clothes, pound his head, and curse the monk, the Bible, and himself. Finally, by exerting his will to the utmost, he composed himself and sank into a fitful slumber- The next morning; he arose lcadcii-headcd and with a sour disposition. All clay he stormed about, thundering orders at his men, and then curs­ ing them for not llyin^ from his presence to do them. Oh, he would make that miserable monk suffer for this!

For days Medullah carried on in this manner. In the daytime he could not sit still, at night he could not He still. “Let him bci accursed.” Certainly, Medullah did not have to fear the words of an infidel book ? l^ut doubt and fear began to torture his mind.

Perhaps he was believing in a false faith. What! Was the faith of his fathers, the faith for which he had fought all these years, the faith which had been his comfort in tribulation—was that faith false? He laughed at the idea and cursed himself for ever having harbored such a thought. His mind was again quieted.

The time came when he was to advance northward. The day before he sat in his Grand Chamber to rest before the march. Soon he would gain another glorious victory for Allah. The thought brought back to mind the battle of Marseilles—the desert riders raise a terrific war-cry and charge across the plain; steel clashes on steel; gun-stocks batter out brains: hoofs stamp on human neck?. The Franks fight bravely, but they are no match for the warriors of Medullah, who are waging a holy war against the in­ fidels. Medullah himself is in the midst of the battle, butchering Christian after—(“Let him be accursed!”） Medullah started. Again those words were tormenting him.

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the battle again, but he could not. He gazed about the room in a frenzy. Suddenly his eyes alighted on a piece of paper. Tlie sheet which he had torn from the monk's hands still lay where Medullah had flung it- He gritted his teeth and dashed to tear it into a thousand pieces. But again his hands seemed numb. Again his eyes were forced to read the verse, All at once he forgot his rage and began to read the whole sheet. Curiosity led to fear.

Perhaps the words were true. The notion made his blood boil.

He would listen to the teachings of an infidel ? A curse forever on him if he does! The word “curse” had hardly escaped his lips, however, when “Let him be accursed” again shot through his mind.

Now he could think of nothing else. He rent his gown, began tearing his hair, and stamped around the room in rage; but his fear only grew. For hours he alternately sat and paced to and fro, his heart a seething volcano, his conscience on fire. At last he could bear it no longer. He sent for Alvier.

The monk came. At sight of him, Medullah wanted to spring at him in fury; but he could not. Although his voice was choking, Medullah finally blurted out his fear. Were the words really true?

Alvier nodded. Pride was fighting conscience. And conscience ___ __ finally won out. In a*broken voice Medullah urged the ^abomin­ able swine'* to tell him of that Jesus in whom the Christians so firmly believed. Alvier did so. He that cometh unto me, him will I in no wise cast out.” Medullah looked out of the window.

The A countryman was bowing towards Mecca and praying, prayer seemed empty to Medullah now. But he did not know which way to turn. He sent away the monk and went to bed.

Soon he was sleeping soundly. The next morning he sent for Al­ vier. When the latter came, Medullah asked him to pray for him.

That night two riders in Moorish garb flitted out of Marseilles.

After a long ride they reached a Christian camp. The weeks fled by. Soon came the fateful day when the hosts of Charles Martel and the hordes of Mohammed met on the plains of Tours. The soldiers of the Hammer soon were driving the infidels back to the south. On the battlefield lay a Moor in Christian dress. On his breast stuck the sword of his brother. Thus Medullah, who had so lived that Allah might reign over the world, died that Europe might be saved for Jesus.

E. J. 1C.,，32.

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The morning sun was sending clown its beams on men and beasts below, As there beneath the maple’s crown She stood and dumbly answered no.

Her li])s were soft, her breath was sweet, As sweet as milk of early dawn.

She walked about on dainty feet.

On wliicli no stylish shoes were drawn.

Ah, how he longed to bring her near rI'o stroke her golden uncombed hair, And why was it that she should fear To trust herself into his care?

He raised his arm. she drew away.

He knew not why: but then he thought Of something- which, *tis true to say, Would never fail in what it ought.

He ^ave her this: it could not fail.

She came, and at his side she sat, Drinking the milk and wagging her tail As he stroked her back, the pussy cat.

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This editorial does not follow the traditional model of articles on this over-worked theme. Others usually wrote before the foot­ ball season opened, exhorting the students to acquire a real college spirit, which was to manifest itself by loud yelling： and by joining in with a chorus singing the college anthem. Did they not com­ prehend that the “not until we win a victory will we yield,” when the opponents were swamping us by a large score, might have ever so slight a tinge of irony in it; or that their yelling1 might more clearly betray their inner despair than a solid silence > This differ­ entiation from the usual method of treating this subject is probably the great virtue of the following composition.

The Northwestern Varsity，denied even a modicum of credit. not . to mention praise by practically all outsiders, have sought for it among its fellow students and the alumni, only to be bitterly dis­ appointed and disillusioned, nay discouraged and disgusted- Wc can possibly pardon outsiders though their judgment cannot but be.biased. I can, however, find nothing extenuating in the almost universal attitude of the students and alumni (with apologies to certain individuals). They are aware of or, in justice, should 212

know of the handicaps to putting forth a winning team under which we labor. And yet remarks (I shall quote two of many spoken in the same tone of voice), remarks that cause one to lose all patience have even come to the ears of the players.

After the Wisconsin “B” game, when we certainly deserved credit, a student in a disgusted tone of voice remarked to me that evidently we should also lose the Lawrence game. Considering the source, we could probably forget and ignore such a statement.

It was a Sextaner. J’jiU. apparently this ingenious youth was only a little less skilled than the higher classmen in dissimulating his dis­ gust. After the Lawrc'nce defeat a higher classman said that surely the student body now had a reason to be disgusted. Disgusted ? and wherefore? I cannot he disgusted with another if I am sure he did his best. Whal (jiiitc palpable implication does this assertion contain. Basically this attitude rests on a lack of confidence of the students that tlu. men (the team together with the coach) representing our Alma Mater on the gridiron are doing their ut­ most, and I challenge anyone to refute this assertion. The students may not be conscious of this fact, but let them examine themselves, and a moment's rellccti(*n will make it apparent that to be disgusted with the team argues a lack of confidence. I repeat that man cannot justly be clisgii.su*(l willi a fellowman if he has confidence that the other has exerted liiniself to the utmost. Let me add that simi­ lar remarks, which arc less pardonable in inen of maturer refleclion, have from time to time been heard from the alumni. The foregoing would then also he applicable to them.

This attitude toward the team causes one to lose all patience, and yet nothing is so exasperating as to hear a student or alumnus say to a player, you can't help it that you lose. A different coach would alter matters.” We may suppose that these same men, if speaking to the coach, would attribute the cause of defeat to the malignity of fate. It should hardly be necessary to call attention to the flagrant injiustice of such a statement. Have they ever in­ vestigated how much time and the quality and amount of material our coach has at his disposal. Northwestern's coach, with pcacticall no one to aicl him. takes a group of inexperienced football candidates out of a student body of one hundred members and makes players of them, as far as their physical and mental aptitude and time will permit; other college football mentors receive from the high schools and academies experienced players, who have pre­ viously demonstrated their capabilities, and need only to improve them. Our athletic director, moreover has not vast sums of cash at his command, which I fear is often decisive in enticing good athletes. Our. coach is a professor of the sciences with as large a number of periods as any college instructor. It is generally accepted that a professor puts more time to studying than a student.

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Then let us consider that according to the arrangement at North­ western the coach has only an hour and a half for actual practice and when the days get shorter in November, and darkness sets in at five o’clock, the time is reduced to one hour. We all know that other coaches have from three to four hours’ time. Moreover our coach has to eradicate that inferiority complex, which was engen­ dered long before his debut. This plain statement of undeniable facts is necessary in judging our coach and team.

In the light of these facts it is quite evident why coach Eickmann should discontinue coaching. He has thus far been doing double duty, two men’s work. We regret that it must be. To us who have been under his guidance the longest he has become dear.

He experienced the pangs of defeat more keenly than we. What is to be done about this spirit among the students and alumni. A fellow student recently assured me that this attitude was but nat­ ural and common to all crowds, that the masses always follow the victor and desert the constant loser. We believe him. It reminds us of the story that all vermin inevitably desert a ship that is about to sink. The comparison is probably ill chosen and hardly ap­ plicable to the genius, homo sapiens, whose sentiments are confessedly on a higher plane, but the analogy is striking. The very attribute “common” which that student applied to this attitude con­ demns it. Has not “common” ever been synonomous with medio­ cre, shallow, and mean ?

We wonder if it is expecting too much of a small and intelli­ gent group that they should l)e above the masses, the common run of sport enthusiasts. Or are they essentially too human, composed too largely of that “coninion” clay, incapable of being sublimatedAll that we with justice can and do demand of the students and alumni is a moment’s examination of conditions and circumstances， that they convince themselves that the players aren’t litter scoundrels minus all sentiments of loyalty and self-respect, and that the coach is not wholly indifferent as to the outcome of a season. This done, I cannot understand how they could become disgusted, could experience a lack of confidence (confidence not that the varsity would win, but that it would do its utmost) in the team and coach. The prevalent conviction that we should lose most of the games is not in itself condemnable. Past experience and present .conditions will make this evident.

This confidence need not express itself in deafening cheers.

Cheering in past years has often been but an echo of the gia.iit despair, nay of the impatience and disgust of the students. Such a wailful tone has often aroused and struck a similar chord in the players* consciousness. All the cheers in the world, I’m sure, never inspired a man to play harder. On the other hand, they l'ave often been the cause of fumbles by making it nracticallv impossible 214

to hear the signals. This confidence in the team will exert its in­ fluence silently and unobtrusively. Music, a spirited march, the strains of “On Wisconsin” are more affective in evoking the proper mood. After all I think most students’ conception of college spirit has been a rousing cheer.

O. H.

THE CHIMNEY AND THE MOON Once tlic gallant moon, while climbing His amethystine stair "I'o the highest point of heaven, Saw a chimney passing fair, That stood among the singing stars As fair as any steeple, With a gracefulness unusual Among; such common people.

He asked if she objected At all to being kissed; The chimney, greatly taken By his roljc of amethyst, Gave the customary answer With many a how and why, And the moon (as she was sure he would) Kissed her in reply.

They passed a half an hour In a most delightful way— Said the moon, "I must be going.

Said the chimney, “I must stay.”

So the moon continued climbing His amethystine stair, Up to heaven's highest landing, While the chimney passing fair Was ridiculed considerably For her sighing late and soon (She, an ordinary chimney!)

For the gallant, climbing moon.

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PAGE FATHER TIME! Excitement in the scientific world! An inventor, making- use of the well known fact that every motion we make, and every sound we utter reverberates endlessly through space, has perfected a machine to reproduce these reverberations. A group of learned men are gathered at his house to test the apparatus.

The inventor turns a dial. ‘‘Pat, pat, pat.” The sound of two men running in sandaled feet is heard. Now they appear on the little movie pane of the machine. Those are the walks of Troy and there is Achilles pursuing Hector around the city. Then the listeners hear spoken those famous words, which our present day comedians claim are original with them. Achilles calls, “Fare thee well, and if forever, still forever”一the final words are lost in a cheer. Hector refuses to answer, and stoops down to tie his shoe strings, in the meanwhile cursing the Egyptian firm that made them. One of the Trojan spectators who has bet heavily on Hec­ tor is heard to mutter something about "ye immortal gods” and “baby needs a new shirt.”

Once, twice, four times around the walls and Hector stands at bay. He casts a spear. '"Confound it, missed !” All is lost. There is a sound of approaching wheels. Undertaker's wagons appear racing to obtain the care of Hector’s body.

The inventor shifts the dial again. “Clank!” Mrs. O’Leary’s cow is kicking the lantern. The Chicago fire is reproduced, accompanied by the groans of several of the men who are fire insurance agents，The inventor again shifts the dial until a clinking; sound comes out of the horn. It makes one of the men with a1 Jewish nose rub his hands and exclaim, “Ah，Croesus counting his shekels.” The battle of Waterloo is now reproduced. They see the charge of Napoleon’s Old Guard, but the sight is too terrible and the dial is again shifted.

The invention must still be improved. The reproductions are now somewhat confused. **Fourscore and seven years ago, give me liberty or give me death.” “Don’t give up the enemy and they are ours.” “Soldiers, yonder lies Bluecher or night.“That these dead shall not have the sea, the sea.” The minute men appear fighting the Spanish Armada. Cortes tumultously storms Troy.

Queen Halshepsut’s men appear quarrying, obelisks out of the snow at the equator.

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Nero's harp hold their o\Vn with the inooings of Mrs. O’Leary’s cow during the representation of two great cities afire. When that day comes we shall have made a great forward step- I thank you.”

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—Two deaths occurred in the class of '91 some time ago. The deceased are Rev. H. Mark worth of St. Louis, Missouri, and Herman Rau of New Jersey.

—Rev. Henry Bruns, ex ’04，of Sanborn, Minnesota，suddenly died of heart failure on December 1, having on the clay previous still preached to his congregation.

—On November 4, Rev. W. R. Huth, ’16，who formerly had a parish at Slades Corner, was installed as pastor at the Bethany English Lutheran Church at Kenosha.

—Sylvanus Ebert，ex ’30, has diligently followed up his penchant for the radio. He is now chief radio-operator at Station KWCR, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and is at the same lime pursuing a course in Radio Engineering at Coe College.

—On November 20, Clarence Sieth，ex ’31, of Racine, stopped off at Watertown while on his way to Marinette, and spent a few days with his former classmates. ―George Rosenhauer, ex ’28, who has taken up physical educa­ tion at the University of Wisconsin, visited with friends at North­ western on November 18.

—Albert . Eniniel, ex ’29, came to Madison along with the Minne­ sota University Band on November 24, and spent the evening1 with his former classmates, Norbert and Walter Paustian. Albert is following a pre-medical course at the University of Minnesota, and is also making extensive studies on his clarinet.

—Karl Falck, com. *27, of Greenleaf, Wisconsin, paid K. Vertz a visit on November 24.

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—Victor Voecks, 527, of Wauwatosa, and Norman Gauerke, ’28, of Madison, appeared at Northwestern on December 3. ’31, who is employed at Milwaukee, has —Walter Nessler, kept in touch with his local friends by repeated visits.

In dieser h(X'hbesch«*ieftigtcn Weihnachtszeit 'vollen wir nicht zuviel von unscren liebcn Lesern erwarten. Wir glauben, class sie alle genug zu tun hal)cn, ohne class sie noch einen langen Stremel von unsercr Weisheit lesen. Darum wollen wir diesmal nur einige Hauptstaffeln i ll unserem Leben uml Weben. hervorheljen, die absolut nicht ⑴it dcm Mantel der Vergessenheit bedeckt werden duerfen.

In dieser Weilinaclulichen Zeit ist oft die Beobachtung zu machen, (lass (lie Scininursubjeckte (fifty-two varieties weniger eins) einsam uml allein. lan^sam und nachdenklich, mit futurischem Blick, an den Sho]>-winflo\vs voruel)ergehen. Was sage ich? Stehen bleiben! Muss eincm da nicht die Frage kommen : wie? warum ? wofuer? wonach ? Hat das schoene grosse Fensterglass solche Anziehungskraft flier die Glicder un seres Frauen vereins, wenn’s niit den bunten Weihnachtsfarben verziert ist? Das waere moeglich! Oder waere es nioeglich. dass diese Druckserei einen Chariiyzweck fuer La Futura hat ? Wohl kaum !

Sind wir einnial in trueben Stunden des Lebens fast mnede geworden, dann koennten wir viellcicht Zerstreuung und Erleichtenmg bekommen (lurch einen Spatziergang zur Sonnenseite des Seminars, wo das Triumvirat, John Koch, Hackbarth und Wagner, eine Kunstgallerie, bestehencl aus den Bilderperlen des 14. und 15.

Jahrhunderts, anzulegen sich befleissigt. Besonders ein.Bild: “An Humble Servant,，J hat schon viel Aufsehen erregt. Die Stellung ist in Ruhe mit etwas Stallage. Das Bild muss man gesehen haben uni es recht wuerdigen zu koennen. John Koch redet freilich nur m der Bildersprache darueber, und, nach unserer Meinung, krass su.bjecktiv. Es ist aber (locli belehrend fliers Character^tudium, seine EXEGESE einmal anzuhoeren.

Es zeigte sich kuerzlich eine Epidemie unter uns, der selbst uiisere hoechste Autokratie nicht voellig gewachsen zu seiu scheint.

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Leuten einstellte, ja sogar auch unsei.11 Bischof und Buecherjuden Alexander ansteckte. Der Lebenswecker des Gloeckners versagte, und selbst Rolirke (wenn man von Leuten von seiner Korpulenz so reden darf) lag da wie ein geknicktes Rohr und konnte nicht aus den Federn. Es gab vor Zeiten ein altes Kuechenmittel, das unsere Grossvaeter noch alle gekannt haben und (lessen Wirkung- niemals versagte. Jene wencleten es gewoehnlich auf ill re Stallknechte an, die u nter der genannten Krankheit auch oft viel zu leiden hatten.

Sie nannten es â&#x20AC;&#x153;Die Wasserkur.â&#x20AC;? Der einzige iinter uns, der dies alte Mittcl noch von Haus aus kennt, ist Herr Haar. Er moechte zur Probe einmal die Verwaltung dieser Kur miter tins versehen, wenn aerztliche M it tel nicht bald anschlagen- Herr Haar sollte sich aber, besser, erst, wiewohl er sehr brav ist, von der Corona bevollmaechtigen lassen. Das duerfte einc rein pracktische Vorsicht sein.

DIES UND DAS. Am 14. Nov. hatten wir die Ehre, Pastor Im. Uetzmann von Picketts, Wis., als unseren Gast zu begruessen. Er hielt sich meistens beim Dornfeld auf.

Wir gratulieren unserem alten Freund, Pastor Walter Krueger von Bison, So. Dak., der sich am 17. Nov. in Milwaukee veraenderte.

Auch konnlen wir uns wieder freuen ucl^er die Anweseuheit unseres Otto Kuehl, Lehrer in Fond du I.ac, der diesmal vier unserer Stunden mitmachte.

ALLEN LESERN UND FREUNDEN EIN FROEHLICHES WEIHNACHTSFEST UND EIN SEGENSREICHES NEUESJAHR!

AUF WIEDERSEHEN NACH DEN FERIEN!

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纸铍饬达 Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses. That translated very freely, as Shakespeare, with little Latin and less Greek, would pos­ sibly have rendered ii in prose is: If one has very little of real worth to say, it 1)citt.\ciii him to keep his mouth shut. That is i: advice the writer ouylit to lieed; however, he has no choice, for if lie presents a blank lie will 1>c condemned, if he scribbles a few lilies they will meet with the same fate. To keep up appearances we have chosen the latter, for even had we been quiet, we should have played the hypocrite, for sages we are not, etc.

Another year has nearly gone. The month of December has but a few more days, December has an interesting name. It means the tenth month, for originally the Roman year began with March.

In English countries the legal and ecclesiastical year still began on the 25th of March as late as 1752, when the Gregorian calendar was introduced. Paging- through some musty old tomes, we came upon a reprint of ail old almanac from 1669, **The Husbandman’s Month­ ly Directions，，’ which gave us much interesting and surprising in­ formation concerning that month. We find there, for instance, that the bright foot'of Gemini sets in the morning of the fifth, that on the twelfth day the sun is in Capricorn, that the twenty-fifth is Christmas, that on the twenty-eighth the left shoulder of Andro­ meda rises with the sun, and that on the thirtieth the left foot of Gemini rises in the evening. Then follows a little advice from Hesiod : ‘'In that season do thou for the defense of thy body.array thee as I bid thee in soft cloak and full-length tunic.” After you pave devoured that advice you are kindly informed that “the Earth is generally fast locked up under its frozen coat, and the husband­ man hath leisure to sit and spend what store he hath before-hand provided.”

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4*Now is it time to house old Cattel; cut all sorts of Timber and other Trees for Building or other Utensils.

“Plant all sorts of Trees that shed the Leaf, and are natural to our English Clime, and not too tender.

••Let horses blood- Fat swine and kill them. Plough up the Land for Beans, drain Corn-fields where Water offends, and water or overflow your Meadows.M For a student December means much. We must have several weeks of rest and diversion after four months of nervous strain.

Our vacation begins on the twentieth. Undoubtedly it is unnecessary to announce that for our fellow students, for it has been tolcl that not a few calendars hear heavy ])lack lines, where day by clay has been painted over in black ink with painstaking care. Grips and suitcases smelling of moth-balls and covered with clust turn up in the rooms. Horns here, there, everywhere blast “Hark the Herald Angels,” or “Tannenbaum，” or “Silent Night” into one’s ears as if they would make it their express purpose to burst your ear-drums and leave you a nervous wreck. Then after having lived for ten or eleven days like true sons of Epicurus the herd returns within the pales of Zeno to sup at Stoic tables. School opens the third. The noise in the crackling corridors begins anew.

One can hardly err when he makes the statement that in this United States less than one-tenth of the children of school-bov age today have never seen Punch and Judy; many have not even •seen an organ grinder and his penny pulilican chum, and still a smaller number has most likely not been scared by the cry of their playfellows “gypsies” and scampering to shelters experienced the excitement of peering out at the muddy covered wagons creaking, rattling along, drawn by starved shuffling- nags. All those are spices of the past; the phrase, “every schoolboy knows'1 will hardly be apt when speaking of them today. On the Continent and es­ pecially in England, Punch and Judy shows are still to be seen, but here in America they pop up only rarely. Marionette shows have played their part in the world’s literature, and therefore every student of it should see such a show at least once in his life­ time. We recall here Theodore Storm's “Pole Poppenspaeler，.’ a delectable little German romance, the plot of which weaves itself about the cart of a puppet-show.

Tlie sixth of this month an afternoon and an evening audience were delightfully entertained in the auditorium by this age old “novelty，” under the name, Tony Sarg’s Marionettes. The after­ noon programme was of a vaudeville nature. The extraordinary skill with which the dolls, about two feet high, were manipulated 222

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The evening's programme, portraying the history of Columbus’ discovery of America ,was even more pleasant- The splendor of Ferdinand’s court, the pretty Isabella, the rich Cardinal, the Shylock and the salty sailors, not to forget the tearful scold of the simple minded Antonio. Columbus’ servant, and the adeptness of ilie operators all helped and made the play one we shall not so soon forget.

This year at Christmas time the people on trains throughout the country will notice black and red paper baggage stickers in pen­ nant form with •‘Xortluvesterii” on them. The stickers are the thing. Get them in the library.

We see bv our Exchanges that with the close of the football season, in the lull prior to the basketball furor, the topic of inter­ class debates proves of interest in many colleges. Debating is again winning favor, and is becoming more and more prevalent.

The Stoutonia of Stout Institute, Menomonie, Wisconsin, is a mediocre paper. One tiling that is bound to detract from the at­ traction of the paper is the overwhelming amount of advertise­ ments. One’s impression is that the paper is half “ads.” One of 223

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The medical examinations of its students which Stout Institute have carried through show some interesting facts. For one thing, a large percentage of both men and women were Jound to have poor postures; many were under or over weight. Steps are loeing taken to correct these and other defects.

The Luther College Visitor, of Wahoo, Nebraska, is a monthly journal which seems to suffer from a lack of journalistic material.

The material given is well presented, but since there seems to be a dearth of material to present, why not turn the paper into a maga­ zine and devote more time to original articles, stories, poems ?

Discussions like "The Reason 1 came to College," which appeared in the November number，would show to belter advantage in a college magazine.

The Racquet, of La Crosse, Wisconsin, provides material for profound thought in the following: a mule can travel over a mile without moving more than four feet.

The Booster, of St. John's E, L. College, Winfield, Kansas, and the Mooring Mast, of Pacific Lutheran College, Parkland, Washington, are both brief and to the point. Both are deplorably lacking in editorials and original articles.

The Collegian, St. Joseph's College, Collegeville, Indiana, is excellently well balanced. It contains practically every depart­ ment that a college magazine should carry. The poems are good, the stories interesting, and the articles far from dry. It is a pleas­ ure to read the “ColTegian.”

Do we measure up?— If your clothes show signs of wear, You’re collegiate.

If your marks are only fair; And you never seem to care When a bim gives you the air, You’re collegiate.

If you’re lazy all your life, You’re collegiate.

If you eat peas with your knife, You’re collegiate.

In short: if you’re vulgar and freaky, you’re collegiate.

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Lake Forest 18; Northwestern 0 This defeat was the last game of ait unsuccessful season. With it seven lcttermen terminated their football career. The graduat­ ing players are the Iollowing: Hammen, end; Schaefer and Schweppe. tackles: R Sauer, guard; Captain Leerssen, center; Martin and A. Sauer, halves. Their absence next fall will not pass unnoticed.

This contest with the “Gold Coasters,” whom our team de­ feated by a small score in the two preceding- years can hardly be termed a game of football. Pools of yellow water stood in every A constant depression of the soil. Soft mud was everywhere. _ downpour of a chilling rain only aggravated the already unfavor­ able condition of the gridiron. The players drenched with icy water, covered with a coat of mud, and exposed to a cold northeast wind, never felt so utterly miserable as when they had to wait for the center to wipe the mud off the ball, before getting set for the next play. The second half practically everyone was shivering, and the slightest blow caused pain to the cold muscles and stiff joints.

In spite of the slippery ball Lake Forest completed several good passes, two of which resulted in a touchdown. They also repeatedly made good gains oft" tackle and by skirting the ends.

In short, the greater number of first downs was to their credit.

From time to time Coach Eickmann’s squad showed some of the drive they had against the "Gold Coasters” in previous years, only to lose the ball on fumbles. The entire game was replete with fumbles.

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PREPS ARE SUCCESSFUL The Northwestern academy football squad under the guidance of Coach Klcinke acquitted themselves well, winning- the two games which they had scheduled. We regret that they didn’t have a game every week-end. The ** Preps'* defeated the Milwaukee Vocational school and the University High also of Milwaukee both by a score of twelve to six. Out of this material the Varsity will be molded in future years-

BASKETBALL We regret that the* amount of time, which he must devote to his classes makes it impossible for Coach Eickmann to do justice to coaching the varsity in basketball, and that therefore he felt bound to drop this extra work. The varsity will this season l)e coached by Kleinke. He will have great difficulty in putting out a successful team, Captain Pless, a center, and Ketlenacker and lilumenthal, guards, are the only lettermen. A host of mediocre aspirants to a position on the varsity reported for practice. With l)ut one hour of practice alloted to them it will be a hard problem to compete with teams that devote three hours to basketball. Our players therefore cannot well vie with the opponents in endurance and team work. This fact must 1)e considered when passing judg­ ment on our team and new coach- The following schedule has been arranged: January 11—Carroll at Waukesha.

January H—Lake Forest at Lake Forest.

January 23—Milton here.

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1—Carroll here.

February 23—North Central here.

March 2一Concordia here.

March 6—Milton at Milton.

Games will undoubtedly also lie scheduled with Milwaukee Normal and Ripon.

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Robert Kasliinske found himself in desperate straits in his search for a plot around which to build a story for the Freshie number. After cudgeling his brains for a whole evening and see­ ing the inspiration just beyond the cerebral mist, he went to bed, luU. he couldn’t sleep: he got up, took a walk, smoked a cigarette, went hack to bed, and finally in classes the next day the inspiration came.

And what's this we hear ? The Freshies reserved the joke column of this number.

The other day that time-honored event which heralds the cer­ tain coming of winter occurred. Dr. Ott brought his canoe up from the Rock River.

There was some excitement over the Minnesota-Wisconsin football game. It seems that there was present the much talked-of football madness, from which some people suffered just before the game. Several of the fellows saw the teams play. Neubert saw his friend Brockemeyer at Madison. Trapp and Paustian and Philip and Alfred Sauer talked with Albert Emmel, ex '29, who came to Madison with the Minnesota University bandNovember 15 a number of students tried to see the stellar dis­ play, but they were un successful. It is reported that List saw a number of the meteors the night before.

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A group of musicians from Northwestern heard Sousa’s Band in Milwaukee, December 2. One of them, the worthy president of the band, Mr. W'arnke, intends to improve Ihc college band, holding in view the standard maintained by Sousa.

Zip Eckert assumed the gentle care over one of the species canis familiaris on November 29. The brute invited himself into Zip’s bedroom and now the last named finds it advisable to keep his bedroom door closed during the process of sleeping.

There are several things to be said about Thanksgiving: J im Schaefer celebrated the wedding of his sister on that day.

He took with him to Iron Ridge the Paustian brothers, the Sauer brothers, Sachs, Reich, and Pussehl, who also celebrated. These eight Seniors took upon themselves the responsibility for the entertainment at the occasion. Oswald, Schweppe, and Albrecht had their turkey and cranberries at Hustisford. Room 88 claims for itself the distinction of having had the greatest “feast•” from those packages which arrive at the dormitory just before Turkey Day. Thurow spent Thanksgiving at his home, and as a result, stayed at Northwestern the following Sunday. Elmer Gentz spent his Thanksgiving with Schwerin at' the former’s home in Juneau. But they did not see much of Juneau as they left for Hartford where, as they say, they had a good time. Mr. “Pizak” Woldt spent Thanksgiving and most of the Sundays since September at his home in Jackson. The Schultz brothers, “Hie,” Hans, Armin, and Walter, had their Thanksgiving dinner at the paternal board in North Milwaukee. Fritze, Zimpelmann, and Baunumn spent their Thanksgiving at the same place.

A considerable amount of mystery shrouds ..Frex” Roth’s black eye. We tried to gather some knowledge of the reason for its existence but were unsuccessful. Also, if anyone can throw any light on the question why Hans Meyer limped into classes late from November 19 to 23, the kind deed would be gratefully appre­ ciated.

Mr. Herbert Gehm of River Forest College, formerly of New Ulm, visited the boys from New Ulm here November 30.

Several football players took advantage of the opportunity to go to Chicago, after the Lake Forest game. Lapis Bergfeld spent a night at his home. Philip and Alfred Sauer and Schweppe also visited the Windy City. But there is nothing to be said about it.

They simply went.

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1 vulgar has come into such popularity at our institution, no doubt the coming Christmas Gillettes will have something to do. Or are those with the facial decoration going to raise the “walrus type?”

N. B.—We cannot risk reserving this choice Local for the Sopho­ more number, even though the moustaches are all Soph. 丁wo rival sandwich shops have sprung up in our midst. The Royal Jews have taken part of the “Royal bailors’ ” shop for a restaurant and have resumed business after being closed since last winter. The other is that alliterative delicatessen on Main Street called Schofroth's Snappy Service Sandwich Shop, also known as the Hamburger Hut. Both are doing a good business with college students, according to indications.

Mr. Theodore Peters and Mr. Leo Manzey of Valpariso Uni­ versity, Valpariso, Indiana, spent the week-end after Thanksgiving with the Peters brothers and acquaintances at Northwestern. incident that is worth While we were collecting Locals, noting happened. After we had got all the Locals from Room 28 that we coukl, the alumni editor stepped in to pump out a few Alumni Notes if possible.

“Someone o ver here asked me what difference there is between Locals and Alumni Notes,” he informed us.

What did you tell the boys, Charley?” we queried.

Well. Arny,” lie replied with his smile, the smile that is only his, **I said that if you want to be honored you put your name into the Alumni Notes; if you want to be slammed, you get into the Locals.’， •’So!”一Exclamation. ........

But he quickly resumed, “Then there is also this, subtle dif­ ference that Locals are local and Alumni Notes are cosmopolitan.^ Room 46, Mr, Lecrssen’s, wishes everyone a Merry Christmas.

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The plans for our Christmas party have nearly been completed, All are eagerly awaiting this event. We have ascertained thus much : Santa will be present with a huge pack of gifts!

Ruth Mayer seems to be devoting much of her lime to all forms of out-door sports regardless of the appropriateness of the season. She attempted ice-skating prior to the regular time and she developed a troublesome cold.

Eva Sabrowsky, a student in the preparatory department, has discontinued her studies.

This year, the observance of Thanksgiving Day did not have the usual serious affects. Everyone must have eaten a rational amount of turkey and cranberries.

Henrietta Guetzlaff was the only non-resident who had the good fortune to spend Thanksgiving Day at home.

Many have spent the week-ends in other cities. Margaret Schmeling reported several enjoyable days in Milwaukee. Hertlia Notbohm was also a Milwaukee visitor. Glenna Rasmussen spent a week-end with Betty Jaeger, at the latter's home in Milwaukee.

While in this city, they were very certain of their destination but they erred slightly in their choice of a street car. At any rate, they reached their goal later. Perhaps they have sympathizers who have experienced the same blunder.

As this is the last publication of the old year, the Co-eds take this opportunity to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a most Happy New Year.

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All rig^ht, Freshies, let's see what you’ve got under those green caps.

Button, Frosh! * I’ll bet Peters is glad he can wear his derby again after the period of the green caps. Often during the last weeks we have seen him cast longing looks at it, as it reposed on the shelf. * 本本 Kaschinske still thinks.he owns the place. .

THIS IS THE FRESHMAN NUMBER. HELP! HELP! Knoll still maintains his position as the greatest art connoisseur in the dormitory. 氺 氺 We wonder why “Sandy” Kreie makes those nightly trips to the library. 氺

Can you imagine Ruth Behling without “Lollie,” or vice versa?

Answer yes or no.

THE BACHELOR'S SOLILOQUY “To wed or not to wed, That is the question.

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iatk ^ THIS IS THE FRESHMAN NUMBER. HELP! HELP! Prof, (in English class) : “Roehl，have you ever done any pub­ lic speaking?，’ 一 Roehl: “Well, I proposed to a girl over the telephone in my home town once.”

THE THING'S IMPOSSIBLE Witt: "Why the sad expression?”

Sclioeneck: “I bought one of those books called “How to Make Love,” and now I don’t know what to do.”

Witt: "Well, can’t you read?”

Schoeneck: “Sure. It says to take the lady’s hand, look into her eyes and say, *1 love you, Beatrice.’ ” Witt: “WelU” Schoeneck: “My girl’s name isn’t Beatrice.1 ALL IN A DAY’S WORK Freitag: “Well, how many orders did you get at Pemiey’s today?”

Klerk Kreie: “I got two orders from one man.

Freitag: “What were they ?

K. I\.: “From the manager—one was to get out and the other to stay out.”

Prof, (checking up on absentees); “Do any of you boys know an ything about Miss 】3ehling?”

Voice (mumbling from rear right corner) : “Find out yourself!” 氺

r ONE OF THOSE SECRETS Sweet Young Thing: 4<We must keep our engagement a secret, dear.

Schliesser: “Yes, I’m ashamed of it, too.”

OVER THE LATIN BOOKS Harke has his head back of that of K. and is making faces at Rudy.

Prof.: “Harke, it，s no use trying to hide behind K.’s head一 there is so little in it that I can see right through.” 氺 氺 THIS IS THE FRESHMAN NUMBER. HELP! HELP! ADVICE FROM EXPERIENCE? Lucille: “What kind of a husband would you advise me to get?”

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Lolly: “I’(l advise you to leave husbands alone and marry a single man.”

OUR ENGLISH CLASS Prof. Kiessling suggests as a tactful introduction for a speech —“I’m not going to begin this speech by flattering1 the ladies. I don't believe in throwing1 a bouquet of roses into a bed of roses.” 氺氺*

AMONG OTHER SAYINGS In Latin class all the girls are absent.

Prof. Herrnian : wYa, nun hat uns de gauze Daem—lichkeit verlassen." 氺

\VK KNOW OUR LATIN One clay Kreie came to class having prepared his Latin in ad­ vance (unheard of circumstance among our circles). He confessed that Livy was going to bring in a little family scandal when he started out a paragraph like this: “Missus Hannibal in Hispaniam omnem exercitum, etc.

ETYMOLOGIES Kaspar (his voice proceeding dimly out of the pages of a big Webster's) : “Say, this is a unique town, isn’t it?”

Kaschinske: **Why unique?”

Kaspar: “It says here, ‘unique: from Lat. unus, one, ancl equus, Horse/ KNOW ’EM? Dornfeld: '*Say, do you know who the Fishal brothers are?”

Freitag: “I’ll bite."

Dornfeld: '"Haven't you ever heard of Artie and Bennie?”

We remember this one From His Tertia Year.

Witt (translating-): “Danda opera est.—It is a dandy opera.

(The evil that men do— ❖ BUTTON, FROSH!

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DOCTORS Dr. T. C. H. Abelmann Dr. E. H. Cook—Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Dr. O. F. Dierker DENTISTS Dr. J. R. Casanova Dr. E. J. Hoermunn Drs. A. & M. Schlueter Dr. Frank F. Schlueter CANDY SHOPS Classic Sweet Shop The Princess Confectionery Olympia Sweet Sh’op CIGARS and TOBACCO The United Cigar Store.

Miller Cigar Store MUSIC STORES J. D. Casey Co.

DRUG STORES Owen's Bittner & Tetzlaff Behlke Drug Co. W. M. Gehrke The Doerr Pharmacy Sabin Drug Co. GROCERIES Bentzin’s John C. Hcismann Carl H. Otto Northwestern Delicatessen BARBERS Sim Block Ed. Hinzmann John C. Seager Ed. Warner Service Barber Shop Young's Marble Barber Shop RESTAURANTS Star Lunch Main Cafe Bridge Inn MEAT MARKETS Julius Bayer W. A. Nack Buerger's Buehler Bros.

BAKERS F. J. Koser Stupka’s Bake Shop Quality Bake Shop INSURANCE Aid Association for Lutherans GIFT and FLORAL SHOPS Stuebc Floral Co. Locffler & Benke HARDWARE D. & F. Kusel Watertown Hdwe. Co. Winkenwerder GARAGES A. Kramp Co. City Auto Service Co. LUMBER and FUEL Wm. Gorder Co. Yawkey-Crowley Co.

AND THE FOLLOWING The Classis; Bank of Watertown; College Athletic Supply Co.; Hartig Ice Cream Factory; H. C Reichert, Frank Bramer, Music Instructors; Vogue Cleaners & Dyers; August Ganrni Crockery Company; Watertown Butter & Cream Co.; The Denninger Studio; Chas. Heismann, Painter; Premier Engraving Co.; Sigmund-Eisner Co” ROTC Uniforms, Tietz Cleaners and Dyers, People’s Fruit Market; Hotel Washington,

LUMBER AND MILLWORK Wall Board Plaster Board Presdwood Insulation

Cement Coal Wood Medusa Cement Paint

Edham Stained Shingles We help finance an addition or a new home

YAWKEY-CROWtEY LUMBER C；OMIPANY

Phone 350

Watertown, Wis.

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND

Happy Feet X-RAY SHOE FITTERS

lUickner's Boot:Shop SHOES FOR THE OCCAS ION，，

215 MAIN STREET

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WATERTOWN, WIS.

A. KRAMP COMPANY The Largest Garage in the city.

Nash Cars

Reo Speedwagons

This Live Store is Always Young We know the spirit of youth—we have it一we show it. That’s why you young men will find youthful styles here一youthful colors 一fabrics with lots of life—all the newest of the new.

And the prices are “Young,” too. Just the sort that comfort­ ably fit the means of young fellows. Fall suits and overcoats at

$19.75 to $35.00 CjIASflSCHEK&S OUR

QUALITY VUST A LITTLE

WATERTOWN, WIS.-

■AT THE BRIDGE

Wm. Gorder Cof

COAL, FUEL OIL, WOOD, COKE Sewer Pipe —and— Building Material

608 Main Street

Telephone 33-1R

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Sign of a Wonderful Time

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FIVE ACTS OF Vaudeville every Monday

Buy your Footwear at

WE MAKE and INSTALL ALL GRADES OF

WINDOW SHADES CALL ME UP! 178-W

spohists 402 Main St. Xmas Slippers, Warm Footwear and Rubbers Iiuy your Xmas gifts at our store

Dr. J. R. Casanova DENTIST

CHAS. HEISMANN DECORATOR

404 Main Street

107 N. First St.

Tel. 714-J Res.504-W

Opposite from City Hall

Dr. E. J. Hoermann DENTIST Telephone No. 258

X-Ray

Watertown, Wis.

Corner First and Main Streets

FIRST CLASS WORK at

SIM BLOCK

“CAREFUL DRY CLEANERS” Office & Plant, 412 Main Street

“THE

BARBER”

PHONE 263-J

Watertown

205 Third Si.

Headquarters for

BELLEMONT HATS AND CAPS

Grube - Greinert Comoany 302 Main Street

JAS. D. CASEY COMPANY PIANOS, PHONOGRAPHS and RADIOS on Easy Payment Plan RECORDS—ROLLS 119-121 Water St.

Watertown, Wis.

DR. FRANK F. SCHLUETER DENTIST Office Phone 156-W

Residence Phone 1212 Watertown, Wis.

215 Main St.

SUITS and OVERCOATS

$22

50

Hoffmann-Kelly Co. Say Merry Christmas with flowers from Stuebe Floral Co. We telegraph flowers anywhere Phone 464

406 Main St.

W. A. NACK MEATS Quality First Poultry in Season Phone 19-W 621 Main St.

mm AT THE SHARP CORNER

Main Street at College Ave. Cigarettes, Pipes, Tobacco Ice Cream, Soda Water Fruit, Bakery, Candy WM. GEHRKE DRUGGIST 315 Main St.

Watertown. Wis.

Shoes Repaired while you wait A. SOHRWEIDE

CROCKERY STORE

210 So. Third Street

400 Main Street

Watertownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Exclusive

AUC. GAMM CROCKERY CO.

If you are under control you will buy your clothes where they are made to your own indi­ vidual measure and enjoy a perfect fitting garment.

TROYER TAILORING CO. The Merchant Tailors Phone 1140-W

11 Main

D. and F. KUSEL CO. “The Store of Quality” offers you only the best in POCKET CUTLERY—RAZORS GOLDSMITH ATHLETIC GOODS

Our photographs express that touch of personality that you ad­ mire in photographs.

The Denninger Studio PHONE 263-W

115 NORTH FOURTH ST.

Young Men’s New

Fall Suits

$2250 Just placed in our cabinets, coming direct from the foremost makers, these suits are ready for your inspection―as fine a selection as we have ever offered at such a low price.

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BueMer Bros., Inc. THE UP-TO-DATE MEAT MARKET Quality, Service, and Lowest Price 108 Main St.

Phone 126

Watertown

Purity Bread There is no substitute for Quality STUPKA，S BAKE SHOP 618 Main Street

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JULIUS BAYER Wholesale and Retail Dealer in MEATS AND SAUSAGES OF ALL KINDS

Phone 431-J

Wisconsin

Phone 25

Watertown

105 Main Street

The Princess Confectionery

City Auto Service Co. Hearses and Cars for Funerals and Weddings

George Spyros, Proprietor ICE CREAM, CANDIES AND CIGARS

TAXI SERVICE AND

STORAGE

Phone 264-W Watertown

200 First St.

ï¼&#x152;Watertown, Wis.

Drs. A. & M. Schlueter DENTISTS Watertown, Wis.

313 Main Street

BEHLKE DRUG CO.

Phone 680-J

Next to Theatre

Corner First and Main Streets

Classic Sweet Shop

Watertown, Wis.

H. C. Brandt, Prop.

BUTTERCUP BRAND OF BUTTER

Agency for

Made By Watertown Butter & Cream Co. Manufacturers and Dealers in Butter and Cheese

WHITMANS CHOCOLATES Ice Cream

Candies

Cigars

Loeffler & Benke Floral Shop IMjone 649

10 Main St.

We Recommend

“BOSTONIAN” bilOES FOR

MEN

Leo Ruesch & Son

ENCRAVINCCO. 814 WINNEBAGO ST-MILWAUKEE

210 West Main Street

People’s Fruit Market 407 MAIN ST. Headquarters for Fresh Fruits and Vegetables of All Kinds.、 We deliver-Give us a trial.

Phone 364

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W. D. Sproesser Co. JEWELERS Pianos and Victor Victrolas

Kohls-Hafemeister Co. Furniture—Funeral Service Edison Phonographs and Records OUR SERVICE SATISFIES

111 Main St

Phone No. 259-J

SERVICE

BARBER SHOP

W. L Volkmann’Prop.

607 Main St.

Phone 150W

WIGGENHORN JEWELRY COMPANY Diamonds一Watches Watertown 13 Main St.

215 N. Fourth Street

Dr-T.C.H. Abeimann CARL H. OTTO Dealer in Groceries, Feed and Flour, Vegetables and Fruits in season. Telephone 597-J. Ill N. 4th St. Watertown, Wis.

Our Advertisers deserve your

United Cigar Store For Cigars, Cigarettes and Tobaccos Also Magazines and Daily Papext 9 MAIN STREET

ED. WARNER EAST END BARBER SHOP

Patronage 602 Main St.

Watertown, Wis.

CARRY A “SPARE” IN YOUR WARDROBE Our grandfather’s didn’t carry a spare wheel on their buggies, be­ cause they seldom needed it. But times have changed and the accelerated pace of modern living has affected clothes as well as transportation.

People rush from one place to another, filling every hour with new interests and activities. There are any number of accasions when a “spare” in your wardrobe一the extra pair of trousers that comes with one of your Adler Collegian Two-Pants Suits—will supply just the necessary touch to “Keep You Looking Your Best.” it’s the biggest development in years in the making of Men’s Clothes.

Let us explain.

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WATERTOWN, WIS.

MAIN CAFE The home of

CHOICE FOOD Home cooking and quality service.

Open day and night.

103 Main Street

Tel. 288-J

Watertown, Wis.

EAT

Hartig’s Quality

ICE CREAM

OWEN’S DRUG STORE Prescription Pharmacists EASTMAN KODAKS AND SUPPLIES Bring in Your Films for Developing and Printing Quality―Quantity—SERVICE WATERTOWN’S FURNITURE INSTRUCTOR Pipe Organ Piano, Violin and Harmony

LEADING STORE

B)

Studio 109 Main St, Third Floor Studio Phone 752-W Res. 318-J Hoffmann Building SERVICE WITH SMILES

DOERR DRUGS E. CHAS. DOERR, Prop.

109 W. MAIN ST. Phone 420 WATERTOWN, WIS.

F. C. KECK & COMPANY

When it’s Fruits or Groceries— Call up~~or Call on,

John E. Heismann & Son “THE GROCERS 115 Main Street Tels. 61-62

110-112 Main Street GO TO

Winkenwerder’s The Wisco Store FOR HARDWARE 207 Main Street

MEN WHO WANT STYLE AND PRICE

SUITS and OVERCOATS

$2250

WEGEMANN-FABER-KAERCHER CO. Value First Store

GREETINGS! The Holiday Season prompts us to express to you our appreciation and thanks for the business you have en­ trusted to us for the past year. Let us serve you again in 1929.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year WE DO REPAIRING and ALTERATIONS THAT PLEASE

Tietz Cleaners & Dyers 110 Second St.

Phone 620-J

YOUNG，S THE HOME OF GOOD SAUSAGE

Phone 197

Marble Barber Shop

Watertown, Wis.

FRANK BRAMER Teacher Violin and Cello Piano Twiner Above Farmers & Citzens Bank 3rd Floor

101 First Street

Star Lunch Restaurant Meals and Lunches REGULAR DINNER from 11:00 to 2:00 Tables for Ladies

WM. SCHUBERT, Prop.

411 Main Street OTTO BIEFELD COMPANY Plumbing, Heating and Piping Contractors ELECTROL (Scott-Newcomb System ELECTRIC IGNITION

QUIET OPERATION

An Automatic Oil Burner

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OTTO F. DIERKER, M. D. EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT EYE GLASSES FITTED

OFFICE, 312 Main Street

WATERTOWN, WIS.

SOCIETY CLUB BADGES PINS Fine Engraved ANNOUNCEMENTS — INVITATIONS PROGRAMS ATHLETIC TROPHIES CHARMS MEDALS

CLASS RINGS

Sunde & Upmeyer Co. tJewe/ers -Milwaukee Pla nkinton Quildi Where Wisconsin Avc. Crosses

Water St.

AID ASSOCIATION FOR LUTHERANS In Business Since 1902 APPLETON, WISCONSIN Licensed in 46 States 61,462 Membership over ____________ ......$ 1,189,225 Surplius Returned to Members over ....$ 1,625,141 Death Benefifits Paid over_____ ............ $ 7,000,000 Reserve over___________________ .......$68,361,057 Insurance in Force over__________ $5 to $15 Weekly Health and Accident Certificates cover $250 to $10,000 Life Insurance Certificates cover .........

For and By Our Lutherans Only. Largest and Best in the Synodical Con­ ference.

Pays sick, accident, double indemnity, total permanent disability, old age and death benefits to men and women, on rates which guarantee safety and insurance at cost, as well as cash surrenders, paid-up and extended insurance. Special department for children.

Well known to and endorsed by our clergy, of whom we name only a few: Rev. C. Buenger, Kenosha, Wis. Rev. Wm. Dallman, Milwaukee, Wis. Rev. J. E. Elbert, Oshkosh, Wis. Rev. O. Hagedorn, Milwaukee, Wis. Prof. E. Kiessling, Watertown, Wis. Rev. R. E. Ziesemer, Appleton, Wis. Rev. Paul Lindemann; St. Paul, Minn.

Apply for particulars to the home office or to a local representative.

Bank of Watertown Watertown, Wisconsin Capital, Surplus and Profit*

$630,000 SEAGER & BRAND

E. H. COOK, M- D. Practice Limited to

UP-TO-DATE BARBER SHOP 11 Main St.

EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT

Phone 1140-J

Spectacles and Eye Glasses Scientifically Fitted Hours 9 to 4 Office—Hertel & Hoffmann Bldg.

Watertown, Wis.

Northwestern Delicatessen

SCHMUTZLER，S

'The Place for Goodies’

FINE

A. POLZIN

FURNITURE

Ice Cream, Candies Cigarettes, Groceries 1207 Western Ave.

RUGS FUNERAL SERVICE 401 Main St.

F. J. Koser BAKER

TRY OUR DOWNYFLAKE DOUGHNUTS 111 Second Street

Telephone 502-W

Shower or Tub

New Modern Rooms

Hotel Washington COFFEE SHOP & DINING ROOM Watertown, Wis.

Phone 400

BASKETBALL Home Games January 23 — Milton.

February 1 — Carroll February 23 — No. Central N. W. C. Gymnasium

Have you tried our delicious sandwiches ?

5c

Hamburgers

5c

SIP & BITE SANDWICH SHOP Fifth and Main Sts.

PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS

College Athletic Supply Co. -FINEBASKETBALL

BASEBALL

FOOTBALL

TENNIS SUPPLIES Milwaukee, Wis.

Catalog on request

Jftaiestic RADIO The RADIO YOU HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR AT THE PRICE YOU WANT TO PAY. Sold By

Bittner & Tetzlaff The REXALL'Store “The Best in Drugstore Goods, the Best in Drugstore Service”

WATERTOWN HDWE. CO. 307 Main St.

ED. HINZMANN

SABIN DRUG CO. MAIN & 4th STS.

BARBER SHOP

i “Everything To Be Found in a First Class Drug Store”

OPPOSITE POSTOFFICE

Delicious Heavy Malteds At The Fountain

WE INSTALLED THE KEWANEE SMOKELESS BOILERS IN NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE

KEHR BROS. 211 No. 3rd St.

Watertown, Wis.

QUALITY BAKE SHOP Pastries of All Kinds Try Our Home-Made Candies Phone 737-W

104 Main St.

Make it a Footwear Christmas

CARL F, NOWACK

For a Christmas gift give slippers.

Anyone on your gift list would wel­ come a pair of comfortable felt slip­ pers. You will find a wide variety here in various styles and colors.

PARLOR CHAPEL UP-TO-DATE EQUIPMENT

A. KALIEBE 616 Main St. STOP AND EAT AT THE

Bridge Inn

Furniture and Undertaking 313 Main Street .Mrs. T. B. Rau, Lady Assistant Phones 54 Res. 51 Livery 41 WE WISH THE

FACULTY and the

Excellent Food at Moderate Prices

STUDENTS

GOOD COFFEE

A Very Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year

Always Open

Phone 136-W

W« have the hunch for your'Iight lunch

107 W. Main St.

Watertown, Wis.

THE OLYMPIA M. SALLAS, Prop,

MEYERS *WSHOEFSTORE

at rtown

BASKET-BALL SUPPLIES at

COME IN AND VISIT US IN OUR NEW LOCATION

205 Main St

Salick’s Jeweler

601 Main St.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LITERARY— A Christmas Sonnet____

■—…197

Santa Claus___________

197

Information, Please!------

•—一 200 202

Wcihnachtszeit________

An Incident on the Pacific Ocean During the World War-------206 ___ 207

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EDITORIALS— •’College Spirit”---------------

212

The Chimney and the Moon (Poem)--------------------- •一 215 Page Father Time________ .— 218 SEMINARY NOTES — COLLEGE NOTES ___ EXCHANGE _________ ATHLETICS_________ LOCALS -------------------

219 ____221 ____223 225 227 229

CO-ED NOTES_______ CAMPUS AND CLASSROOM____ 231

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Black and

Januari] 1929

Sophomore Mumber

NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE Watertown, Wisconsin

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

LITERARY— 234

Memories ....

. 236

Motives of Travel

238

Relics ....... ....

EDITORIALS— A Tempting; Danger

240

The Value of Ancient Mythnlocfy 243 244 The Tclcchron The Junior Band

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Forced Impressions

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SEMINARY NO，「KS

249 251 253 255 258 260 261

COLl.KGE XOTKS FAX11AXGK ATM LI'.TICS LOCALS .

CO-EI) NOTES CAM PI'S AND CLASSROOM

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THE BLACK AND RED Volume XXXII.

Watertown, Wis., Jan, 1929

Number 8

Entered at the Postoffice nt Watertown. Wis , as second class matter under Act of March 3, 1879. Published monthly. Subscription, One Dollar.

MEMORIES Pete was sitting at ease in his big easy-chair in his room at college, watching the snow swirl by the window and letting- the experiences of his childhood days pass through his mind. He was something of a dreamer, and the strains of “The Old Oaken Bucket” that a roommate was humming served to bring back the scenes of his childhood on the farm down in Michigan. The wooden house he was born in had been nothing to boast of. It had never been painted, and the broad clapboards were worn and blackened by the weather. It is almost unbelievable that a family of eleven lived in that house. It had only two bedrooms, but noth­ ing prevented the use of the living room and even the kitchen as sleeping quarters. The upstairs was hardly fit for human habita­ tion. It was all one room, only half floored; its ceiling was the leaky roof. The only heating system in this room was the chimney, which felt warm to the touch but had no effect on the chilly air. It happened quite often that the sleepers upon awakening found themselves covered with a blanket of snow that had blown through the cracks and holes in the walls. In the summer the wasps made it their home; the mice were present throughout the year.

For these reasons no one cared to claim possession of the up­ stairs. Pete, especially, feared this second story on account pf the "ghosts” that haunted the unfloored part. During the winter when 234

3 the wind whistled round the corners of the house, Pete sat with stocking-feet propped against the nickled side of the stove, and ate apples while he read over and over again the stories in his sis­ ters’ third and fourth grade readers, and his sisters sang those sweet old songs which are now heard only as curiosities over the radio. He found it very agreeable to crawl into the thick feather bed, with its mattress of cornhusks, and to have his mother bring a heated flatiron wrapped up to warm the feet. He would often awake at night, hear some sound, perhaps a mouse, and quickly puU the cover over his head to hide from the “bears and wolves/* fearing every moment that they would soon have him. There was always a blazing fire in the heating stove when he awoke on those cold mornings, and a big dish of steaming buck\vheat pancakes with maple syrup was set on the table for breakfast. No woman could excel his mother in baking pancakes.

When Pete had been laid up with a broken leg, his bed was an old couch placed in front of the stairway door which still bears the deep pencil marks of that time. His mother had a good' notion to box his ears, but since he had a broken leg, he was exempt from punishment. It was misery to be penned up in the house while the other children had their fun outside. How he longed to play “thrashmacliine， as he called it, with the others in the autumn leaves! To break the monotony a friend brought him a music box. He cranked this organ until it could hardly get its breath, and was greatly amused by its music, even though at that time he was not permitted to play “The Watch on the Rhine.” Indeed, the old house seemed most comfortable; but it would have been otherwise, had not Pete’s parents, upon their moving there, gotten rid of the bedbugs that had filled nearly every crack in the house.

These vile insects had been so numerous, that when a door was closed, the blood would ooze out of the crevices. Now, however, since prosperity and a new house have come, the old house is used as a place for everything that has no further use elsewhere. Even after being in the new house Pete wished that he were still in the old one; it had seemed much more homelike.

Pete’s father had no automobile, but his slow horses seemed to take the family fast enough to its destination. It was great sport to go to church nine miles away, especially on Christmas Eve when each of the children got a big bag of nuts and candy.

Perhaps the season that afforded Pete the greatest joy was spring. Then was the time to throw shoes and stockings into corner, and let the soft, green grass tickle his toes. His feet were cleanest while wading in the ditch to catch frogs, polliwogs and crabs. A crab was always a good find, because it amused Pete to watch the old cat run circles around herself with a crab on the end of her tail. But spring and summer brought their troubles一235

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work. Pete and his older brother, Bill, found it most burdensome to watch the cows, even though there were only two. When the boys should have been watching them they usually were wading in the ditch with no thoughts whatsoever on their duty. Suddenly one would think of the cows, (usually some one else called their attention to it) and the cows were, most probably, getting a de­ licious meal from the tender young corn. It was, of course, the cows’ fault that the corn was eaten; they had no business being so greedy, and deserved the punishment which the boys inflicted upon them. But a switch or the razor strap was used a great deal on Pete and Bill for such neglect of careful watching. It was a great joke for Pete when Bill on one occasion tried to run away from a whipping. Had Bill not been so small, he could not have run under the grape rows so fast and far before his father caught him. It did not help him in the least to run farther, for he was whipped all the way back home. When the two brothers were angry with each other, one always wanted to see the other get the stripes. But Pete could without a doubt, boast of having received more lashes than Bill. He paid his heaviest penalty, as far as he could remember, for his and his younger brother Ted’s making fires between closely-placed buildings. Both Pete and Ted rescnted it very much that it was Bill who picked out the quincetree whip that was used on them. All the boys in later years admitted that the rod did them no harm.

The boys always wanted summer, but when they had to pick berries day after clay, it was a different matter. They then longed for rain, that it might be impossible to work, or live in the city where boys had no work to do. Their longing for the city soon left them when the cornsilk began to turn brown and dry. They could now roll their own cigarettes with newspaper, or make their own pipes from a barnyard corncob, and have their secret smoking orgies. Some even made the smoke come out of the nose!—a real feat for him who could do it without coughing.

All this passed through Pete’s mind as he gazed unseeingly out the window. When a child, he was always wishing he were already a man: but now he realized that those had been his hap­ piest days, and they were now behind him.

E. F.,，31.

MOTIVES OF TRAVEL As long as this world has been existing, people have traveled.

As populations increased, people began to emigrate to the more favorable parts. Herodotus, one of our earliest historians, gives us an account of his travels' in Egypt, Babylonia, and Persia. The 236

Carthaginian Hanno tells us of explorations along the west coast of Africa. The Bible offers many examples of early travelers. In Genesis we are told that after the confusion of tongues, the Lord scattered the people over the whole face of the earth. Farther on we are told of Abram, who with Lot traveled up the Euphra­ tes River into a land which God would show him. Travel has thus in these early scouts its first exponents, and they affirm that travel is as old as the human race. The motives that urged these early travelers on were as varied as their ambitions and characters.

First comes the true explorer whose goal is beyond bounds.

His restless spirit and curiosity impel Is him to penetrate to the re­ motest comers of the world, seeking new lands and coming into contact with strange peoples. He must be courageous and able to bear up under all hardships and difficulties. The true explorer cares little for making the explored land his own and therefore asks little compensation for his work. The explorer desires dan­ gers, hardships, obstacles, and thrills. The triumph over these difficulties is his reward and in the end his recompense. Explora­ tion is indeed the foremost inducement to travel.

War at all times has compelled men to travel. But the explorer and the warrior stand directly opposite each other, the explorer cares little who may rule the world, if only he is free to travel in it. Not so with the soldier who is out for possessions.

The desire to conquer drives him into strange lands. Alexander the Great is a fitting example of the soldier. Desirous to carry out his father’s will, Alexander traveled through Asia Minor, across the countries of the Tigris and Euphrates, then east as far as the Indus River conquering nations as he proceeded. Alexander was interested chiefly in acquiring wealth and power rather than in searching out; the beauty of the country as the explorer would do.

Religion has been another strong incentive to travel. Here we have the development of the pilgrim and the missionary, The pilgrim travels because he seeks refuge from persecution, or be­ cause he wishes to visit places holy to his faith. His journeys are sometimes long and difficult, and he must often travel thousands of miles before he reaches his long-hoped-for goal. The pilgruim anticipates the things which are to be, so that he observ/es fe things along the way. In early times the people of China traveled the sacred places of India. In the Middle Ages the Europeans went on holy journeys to Jerusalem. These religious travelers found their reward in the spirit and in the hope of salvation.. We can well understand why these people do not take the proper inter­ est in the world through which they pass.

The travel of the pilgrim is such that it draws him to some center of his faith. This is then the end of his journey. Not so with the missionary. The missionary is drawn away from these 237

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centers and is compelled to travel into unknown regions and among strange people. The travel of the missionary is by far greater and much more like that of the explorer. He must take a greater interest in the things about him, for he must learn to know the tilings which influence the lives of the people among whom he works.

A motive which is far more effective than exploration, conquest, and religion and one which leads to even greater results is that of trade and commerce. The trader goes out in search of new markets, where he can dispose of his home manufacture. In this way the trader has been driven to every part of the world and has contributed much to the undertaking of greater travels and explorations. For the trader even more than for the missionary is it important to observe the country and the character of its people.

He goes out in search of an easier and safer route which will give him an advantage over his competitors. It was this search of new and shorter ways which led to the discovery of our country.

Travel is then as old as the human race. There are and have been many kinds of travelers according to the motives which in­ duced them to go forth. Many travelers have left valuable rec­ ords from which we can gain knowledge. They give us a vivid description of different countries, and we can see the courage and ability necessary for the traveler to overcome the dangers and dif­ ficulties which hinder and obstruct him. Truly, heroism and selfsacrifice have been exemplified again and again in the lives of the explorer and traveler.

There is little need to speak of the pleasures of traveling, for they are too obvious. Greater than the pleasure is the knowledge gained and the influence which travel exerts on our habit of thought and on our attitude toward our fellow-men. Since travel gains for one a better conception of life and the achievements of the human race ，every person should make it a part of his education to do more extensive traveling.

G. A.,，31.

RELICS It is very interesting to go with grandpa into the attic, better known to grandpa as “Die Rumpelkammer，’’ and ask him about the queer things stored up there. As vve step in with grandpa the •first thing that catches our eyes is an old helmet. Grandpa takes it from the wall, brushes off the dust, and tells us that he wore it fighting for “Deutschland” in 70 and 71. Now a funny looking thing standing in the corner interests us. It looks like an old bi­ cycle turned upside down. We ask grandpa what became of the 238

other wheel. He laughs, pounds the ashes out of his pipe, pulls the thing out of the corner, and steps on a pedal we did not see before. The wheel begins to go round and in turn sets in motion a thing that looks like an old time coaster brake. The buzz of the wheels thrills us, and we wish grandpa would let us step on that pedal. Grandpa, however, puts the thing back in its place, lights his pipe, and tells us that it is not a bicycle, but a spinning wheel, that the thing we took to be an old time coaster brake is callfed a spindle, and that grandma used to spin wool into yarn from which she would knit father’s stockings and gloves. We are about to ask him how grandma could make yarn out of wool with that wheel when another strange object attracts our attention. Grandpa says it is a cradle. No, not a cradle in which to rock babies to sleep.

It is the cradle-scythe with which grandpa used to cut his wheat, • oats, and barley. We would like to have grandpa tell us more, but his pipe went out and he cannot find a match to relight it; so we go downstairs with him to get one and forget all about our question.

It is still more interesting to look at and study the collection of peculiar objects stored away in the shrines, particularly of the Roman Church. Four years ago an article on “Relics” appeared in the “Walther League Messenger” which gave the following in­ teresting list: Three flames from the burning bush of Mt. Horeb.

A fine piece of Moses’ left horn. (!)

Two feathers and an egg of the Holy Ghost. (?)

One whole comer of the banner with which Christ harrowed hell.

A whisk of Beelzebub’s beard which clung to said banner.

Half a wing of St. Gabriel, the archangel.

A full pound of the strong wind that rushed past Elijah in the cave on Mt. Horeb.

Two yards of noise of the trumpet at Mt. Sinai.

Thirty thumpings of the timbrel of Miriam, the sister of Moses, heard by the Red Sea. A huge chunk of the shout with which the children of Israel threw down the walls of Jericho.

Five fine, clear strings of Davids harp.

Three well preserved locks of Absolom’s hair by which he was caught in the oak.

This list is, of course, not to be taken seriously; but an au­ thentic list of relics preserved and worshipped from mediaeval times to this day would be hardly less surprising.

The most common of all relics is the cross, or chips of the cross, of Christ. Some of the most extraordinary powers are ascribed to these crosses or chips. It is said that a certain sick woman found three crosses beneath the statue of Venus. A short 239

I 艰HI^ 够 distance from these lay the inscription: “Jesus Nazerenus Rex Judaeorum.” This made it impossible for her to decide which of the three was the cross of Christ. She went to a priest for help.

He told her that the cross which would heal her disease would be the cross of Christ. As she was placed on the third cross the sick­ ness left her. Surely, this must be the cross of Christ. She broke it in two, sent one piece to her brother, the other to the pope.—» That should have lessened the healing power of the cross; but it seems the smaller the piece, the greater the power.

Plain idolatry is practicd with some of the supposed crosses of Christ. It is said that at certain festivals of the year, usually on Good Friday, some of the Roman Catholic churches have what they call “Praesciitificati，” the presentation of the wood of the cross. The priest is dressed all in white, stands in front of the altar, faces the people, and holds the cross covered with black cloth. As lie uncovers it, he sings, “Ecce lignum crucis，” behold the wood of the cross! The choir answers, “Adoremus te，venite!”

O come, let us adore Him! After repeating this three times, the priest puts the cross on the floor near the altar. Then he and his assistants take off their shoes, go to the main floor of the church, and start a procession, walking slowly to the cross. During the march they kneel down three times and kiss the floor. When they arrive at the cross they kneel again, kiss the cross, and touch it with their foreheads. The people follow their example.

Another saying has it that Leo the Third, Pope from 778-816, asserted an angel of the Lord once appeared to him and told him where part of the body of Christ lay. Leo the Third said that Charlemagne and some of his knights went to Jerusalem, found _ this part of the body of Christ, and gave it to the pope. Now many of the churches claim to have this same part.―This seems peculiar; for, without a doubt, Christ rose on the third day and rose completely, leaving no part of His body behind as a relic.

Furthermore, no historian ever referred to Charlemagne as having visited Jerusalem.

This same pope gave the city of Mantua a cruet which is said to contain a drop of the blood of Christ. Mantua is worshipping this cruet today. Other cities, also, claim to have a drop of the precious blood of Christ. It is said Longius brought these drops to Europe.

Longius is supposed to have been the soldier who pierced the side of Jesus with the spear. It is reported that he became blind in the act and that after sudden repentance he recovered sight by wetting his eyes with the blood of Jesus, which was still running from the spear. He became a monk, died as a martyr at Cappa­ docia, and his body was thrown into a sewer. His body is worshipped at Mantua, Rome, and at Lyons.

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Roman Catholics claim to possess the shroud in which Christ’s body was wrapped. This supposed shroud is in the royal chapel of Superga. The “original” shroud may be found in many other places. Many napkins which are said to have been around the head of Christ may also be found.

Some churches even claim that they have a picture of Christ, painted by Christ himself.

A few years ago a letter of Jesus Christ appeared. Copies of this relic were sold for twenty cents each at the main entrance of the Cathedral of Ascoli, Piceno, Italy. The “original” letter is said to have been found in the sepulchre of our Lord in Jerusalem.

It is said that this letter tells of Christ’s passion and also states that it cost Christ 28,430 drops of blood to redeem this world.

At first glance it seems strange that people can so easily be led astray, that they do not “catch on.” One should think they would realize that there are so many “original’’ crosses and chips of crosses of Christ in the world that whole churches could be con­ structed of them, that there are so many drops of blood of Christ in cruets that the would by far outniiinbei. the alleged 28,430 drops it cost Christ to make atonement for us. We ask ourselves again, '*Ho\v can people be so dumb?” Let us go back for a moment into the attic with grandpa. He answers our questions about the queer things up there. We do not for a moment doubt the veracity of his statements. \Ve put confidence in everything he says, be­ cause he is grandpa, is old, and has had experience. Pity the one who says grandpa is wrong.

The same holds good in the Roman Catholic Church. The people are the little children, the pope and priests the “grandpas.”

If the pope or the priests say, “Lo and behold! Here are feathers and an egg of the Holy Ghost; there is a full pound of the wind that rushed past Elijah in the cave on Mt. Horeb; and some other place is a huge chunk of the shout with which the children of Israel threw down Jericho ;* or, “Ecce lignum crucis”； the people cross themselves in awe and fall down and worship, crying1, “Verily, verily!” because the pope and the priests, the experienced and learned men who ought to know, said so. Pity the one who says the pope or the priests are wrong.

These people are to be pitied rather than criticised. They are really not at fault. No more than we would be at fault for be­ lieving grandpa had he told us that the helmet was an old turtle shell, the spinning wheel an old Ford, or the cradle an Eskimo motorcycle.

J. C. D., ,31.

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A TEMPTING DANGER The movement toward simplified spelling is not a new one.

The question was raised about three decades ago and subsided after only a partial victory, but since that time the problem has sprung up several times, and it now seems to be gaining a foothold in our midst. Although the original reformers did not advocate the introduction of phonetic spelling, but professed merely to be taking a step toward logic and consistency, few of their followers today make this distinction. They use simplified spelling only in application of the principle of conservation of energy.

Though modern spelling only dates back about two hundred years to the time of Dr. Johnson's dictionary, uniformity had set in after the advent of the printing press more than two centuries before. The spelling which is now current is the natural product of use and development. It maintains the unity of the English tongue through the centuries and displays the history and origin of our language. The English language has been elevated by natural processes to its present high position and gradually extended with the spread of the English empire throughout the world, being enriched and cosmopolitanized for its broad use by materials absorbed from numerous sources and being simplified in form and structure by submitting to use in the mouths of men of various minds and various tongues. The forms that have thus grown up 242

by the usage of centuries have become endeared by innumerable associations and countless memories.

We can readily understand why this movement should gain favor among the uneducated masses, since the way that requires least exertion and thought naturally appeals to them, but it is in­ comprehensible why it should take among the more cultivated.

Since most of the difficulties and complications in our spelling are due to the foreign, mostly Germanic and Romance, influence, those who care nothing for the etymology and history of words and re­ ceive no pleasure from observing the development and growth of their language should be ardent supporters of simplified spelling; if for no other reason, then for the sake of common sense. If they are unable to cultivate an appreciation and fondness for such ob­ servation and study, they should no longer harass themselves with the nuisance of irregular spelling but should be zealous to abolish all traces of foreign influence and the signs that show the origin of their language. For them the only logical and rational way of spelling would be according to sound—the way illiterate people would spell.

The student who attempts to form himself solely upon the lan­ guage of today misses entirely its childhood, youth, and growth.

It is in this primitive stage of a language that its literature is free from the self-consciousness, affectation, sentimentality, and the morbidity and gangrene of highly developed civilization and filled with the simplicity of expression and freshness of emotions that pioneers in literature alone can imbue. It is they who give us, be­ sides a knowledge of literary language and our standards of literary judgment, a fine opportunity to observe and study their life, their manners, and the feelings and emotions that really moved them.

Since we have acquired a certain amount of education and are suf­ ficiently cultivated to derive pleasure and enjoyment from things that are beyond the material, we must exert ourselves in guarding1 against the indifference and otiosity, which are the main induce­ ments to simplified spelling. We should be able to appreciate and enjoy the fine touches of history which we find in words一the d.elicaie tinges that carry us back through the ages, beyond the time of Moliere, Cervantes, Chaucer, Dante, and Walther von der Vogelweide.

H. THE VALUE OF ANCIENT MYTHOLOGY .

A subject which is greatly neglected in the schools of our day is the study of ancient mythology. Many people ask, “Why should we, with the knowledge of the world at our fingers’ tips, interest 243

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Indeed, we can derive very much benefit, and also pleasure from them. These myths were the basis of Greek religion and played an important part in their religious life. The myths afford us a closer view of Greek life, of their ideals, their customs, and their habits. Without a knowledge of mythology, many of the elegant pieces of literature of our language cannot be understood and appreciated. To many students, much of our best English poetry and prose lies beyond their imaginative reach because of their lack of familiarity with classical allusions. Many of our English and German poems and novels are filled with mythological references. Schiller, Milton, Byron, and Shakespeare frequently mention incidents and characters from these myths. A knowledge of mythology will also lead us to appreciate beauty; it will heighten our enjoyment of literature and art.

It is futile to try to understand many of the old masterpieces in paintingf, sculpture, and music without something more than a superficial knowledge of this charming subject. Many of our famous paintings and statues have been inspired by Greek and Roman mythology. Mythology is a treasurehouse filled with tales to stimulate the creative force of musical composers. Many of the great operas and songs were influenced by the myths. It also plays an important role in the science of astronomy. Most of the stars and constellations arc named after mythological heroes. As­ tronomy takes on a new interest for one who knows the stories connected with the constellations of Orion, Perseus, Hercules, Pe­ gasus, or the Big Bear.

These myths are not only instructive and educational, but they are also very interesting. There are few fields of learning so al­ luring, Anyone who likes fairy tales cannot but be interested in these fascinating little stories, written two thousand years ago and more.

W. A. R.，，31.

THE TELECHRON “Now, at last, a modern clock, to meet twentieth century needs.” A new building with comfortably furnished rooms is all that is necessary now to have a modernly equipped dormitory at Northwestern. But let us get back to our new clock. Shortly before Christmas vacation, operations were begun to install this “‘Wonder of the ag-e”. Several days after we returned from that “land of milk and honey” it was hung in the hall. Its predecessor has been pensioned and now hangs in the gymnasium. The old 244

clock still loses its three minutes a day. Undoubtedly, it will also continue to stop to take its monthly rest. Some of you, however, may doubt the accuracy of this new time piece. You may suppress your doubts, for “the time impulses which operate it are regulated at the power station in accordance with the radio time signals sent out by the Naval Observatories.” This alone, if one can believe advertisements, will make it an authority on time. In glancing at it from the side, one might mistake it for some invaluable piece of Greek architecture. To be more explicit, it closely resembles the base of a shaft from some ancient Dorian column. This clock has already shown its moral influences on student life. In the morning the students get up with a regularity that is uncanny.

The clock enables us to get those piping-hot meals we are so much in favor of. Through its aid the students get to their first class punctually. The clock and the students, however, can not be held responsible (or the regularily of the remaining classes. And what a blessing the Telechron has proved to be to the tutors. With the aid of a third hand, the second hand, they can check up on the in­ coming students to the last second. By the way, did it ever occur to you that even this seemingly unimportant little red hand also works with great accuracy, traveling around the face of the clock once every minute ?

H. A. S., ’31.

THE JUNIOR BAND A Junior band has been organized again this year in order to promote interest in band work. That interest has been shown can clearly be seen by the number of those who took up instruments.

About thirty-five are now coming to band practice. Good progress has been made thus far, considering that some of these mem­ bers have never had a horn in their hands before, and the majority knew nothing or very little about music. Since this was the case, it was decided to use Fred O. Griffen’s ^Foundation to Band Play­ ing,M as a medium of instruction. The book has proved very sat­ isfactory, since it not only teaches the beginner how to play his instrument, but, at the same time, gives him the opportunity to play the lesson with the entire band. Because more difficult music is being played at every rehearsal, it is advisable for those who still wish to join, to do so as soon as possible. It is said that there are several in the dormitory who have instruments and have not made any attempt to join. It is possible that they are troubled with an acute case of bashfulness; or are they just naturally, well一 lazy? Members of this band are examined, from time to time, by a committee selected from the concert band, who determine whether 245

or not those who are being examined are ready for the concert band.

We must have material to draw from if we want to keep up or raise the standard of the concert band. So let’s work hard!

T.

FORCED IMPRESSIONS Our life is replete with impressions. From the impressions that we give, our contemporaries judge our personality, tempera­ ment, ability, character, and desirableness. As there is something wrong with the conduct of every human being—I mean, no one is perfect一so also docs the giving of impressions include a detestable factor. This detrimental element is the result of the habit that many people have of trying to force a false, delusive impression upon their associates.

“Collegiate! Collegiate! Oh, yes, we are collegiate ~~just the beginning of a popular song now gone and forgotten, but the spirit of this song still moves on. That species of human being who gloated in the idea that this song was written for his benefit is a good example of a person who excels in the art of giving ilmpressions. If we observe this particular class of collegiates on Main Street, in restaurants, or in other public places, we soon notice that one is eagerly trying- to outdo the next in wit, humor, loqua­ ciousness, and daring，- whereas he who does not laugh as heartily as the rest, feels that he is falling in the estimation of his com， rades. They feel triumphant and contented when they imagine that the others wish they could be as popular, jaunty, and gay as they are. Another very select group of students amble about in a most elite manner. The typical specimen of this group simpers most refinedly. You have no doubt heard that soft, restrained, bored laugh—it takes intense practice to develop it. He holds his cigarette in the most dainty manner; he is hardly ever found on a gridiron or basketball court, and he does not yell too loudly or boisterously when his team is winning. He is careful not to asso­ ciate with what in his opinion is the more insignificant and uninter­ esting part of the student body. He does not realize that we can become urbane without exerting ourselves in a deliberate effort to make others see that we are acquiring polish. We see other stu­ dents who walk around with a grave, learned, and philosophical air.

A good way to identify them is to glance at the book which they continually carry about. If we have literary, scientific, philosophic, ethical, or profound religious questions that trouble us, we must not hurt the feelings of the intellectual cream of the college by going to someone else for a solution. We cannot say that there are not many who are really so engrossed in their work that they 246

do not notice the impressions that they give to their fellow-students, but we know that many of these serious and highly educated stu­ dents know no more about the modern world and modern ideas than Julius Caesar knew about this same a^e. Of course, everybody has seen grandstand athletes. One finds those energetic, robust, young men on every college campus, and they are easily identified by the athletic jerseys which they wear wherever they go. They are the heroes who tell an opponent “just where to get off at” dur­ ing a football game—loud enough so that the spectators can hear it. They are usually rewarded with an extra roar of applause from the bloodthirsty crowd.

But does all this giving of impressions do the author any ma­ terial good or give him any prestige in the eyes of his fellow-men ?

What do you think of somebody of whom you feel he is trying to make an impression ? A maxim for the elite as well as for the provincial is: be natural, ingenuous, and sincere. If we observe this principle, we shall not be in danger of becoming self-conscious, conceited, overbearing, or even ridiculous.

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—On January 2, Rev. Gerhard Fischer, ’22, visited with faculty members at Northwestern. He was lately installed as pastor in the parishes of Savannah and Mosquito Hill, Illinois, and Sabula, Iowa. 一On January 6, Rev. Henry Nitz, *15, who was formerly at Whitcriver, Arizona, was installed as pastor at Rockford, Minne­ sota.

—Prof. Ralph Owen, Ph.D” ’05, of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, will in the near future publish a book on adolescent education.

—Rev. Gustav Vater, ex *99, took charge of the North Freedom congregation shortly before Christmas.

—The “Cochrane Reporter” recently printed a picture of Jacob Van Kooy and his truck in which he travels from place to place for the Wisconsin Anti-tuberculosis Association, giving health talks exhibits and moving pictures on the prevention of tuberculosis.

The paper states that he is popularly known to thousands of 4 H club members and adults throughout the state as ‘‘Jake the out­ door man,” because he holds many of his health meetings outside and whenever night overtakes him, pitches tent. The paper adds that standing- at six feet tall, husky Jake is really a picture of health.

Jake was enrolled as a special student at Northwestern in 1923 and served as captain of our military company.

—Paul Kuske, ’26，delivered a sermon in Zion’s church at East Farmington on Christmas day. 一Otto List, ex ’25，recently entered the employ of the Wahl Eversharp Company of Chicago as business correspondent for the Illinois-Southern Wisconsin territory.

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一The engagement has been announced of Roland Hillemann, ’25, to Miss Grace Holzhueter of Marshall, Wisconsin.

—Louis Winter, ex ，32, called on friends at Northwestern on January the seventh. He is doing his first year of seminary work at the Concordia Seminary of Springfield, Illinois. Herbert Walther, ex ’33, is enrolled at the same institution.

—Lawrence Krasin, ex ’32, spent Sunday, January the fifth, with his former classmates at Northwestern.

—We announce the birth of a son to Rev. and Mrs. William Lehman, ’19, of Libertyville, Illinois.

參?mitmrg Nutts (Geschrieben Den 13. Januar, 1929, at 20 below zero) Die Weihnachtsferien sind vorbei, olnvohl mancher ini Geiste noch in den Ferien sein mag. Und die Flu ist auch vorbei, obwohl jetzt am Ende der ersten zwei Schulwochen noch nicht alle Studiosen liier sind, und das Geruecht geht, class die Betreffenden noch beim Genesen beschaeftigt sind. Aber nichlsdestoweniger geht die Seminararbeit wieder in vollem Schwung vorwaerts. Schulpredigten und Katechesen wechseln mit bewuiulerungswuerdiger Regelmaesigkeit ab, und jede Woche bekommen wenigstens vier Schlachtschafe ihr “Genuegend” oder “Ungenuegend.” .

Aber trotz der vielen Schwerbeladenen bewegt sich unsere Karawane ruhig und zielbewusst vorwaerts; und jetzt bei einem Wetter, da man sich kauni vor die Tucr wagt, werden wohl unsere Stuien immer mehr zur Bluete kommen. Eine ganz besondere Leistung, die ihresgleichen nie gesehen, war es, class wir schon am 2. Januar, um 7 Uhr morgens, fuer die Vorlesungen wieder hier sein mussten und auch hier waren; nachdem wir so ermattet und an der Flu erkrankt, am 14. Dez., 1928, in die Ferien gefahren waren. Leider war es unserem Geschichtslehrer an dem genannten historischen 2. Januar Krankheits halber nicht vergoennt, seine Stunde zu geben. Und wir muessen auch gestehen, dass noch manche Luecke in unseren Reihen war, die wir vergeblich auszufuellen suchten. Aber die hier waren, waren wohl geruestet, und man konnte es ihren Gesichtern ansehen, dass sie fest entschlossen waren, sich jetzt oder nie durch den ganzen Wintertermin durchzubeissen.

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ausserdem, dass eine sehr wuerdige Person getroffen wurde, auch den pracktischen Vorteil haben duerfte, dass unser Buecherjude aus schierer Dankbarkeit gegen die grosse Ehrerweisung unsererProzent herunterdrueckt. Aber seits den Buecherpreis leider hat nun diese vveise Wahl eines Buecherjuden auch wieder ist dadurch dem Judentum Tor und Tuer ilire Gefahr; denn geoeffnet, und wir alle stehen in Gefahr zu verjuden.

In unserer Aula, in der es fuenf unter Null ist, wenn es drausen Null ist, ist es in cliesen et'vas kuehlen Tagen nicht gerade angenehm. Dies haben etliche, von denen, die ein paar Stunden Ruhe dort suchten, erfahren. Unser Psychology Wagner hat sich ganz und gar aus clem Staube gemacht und ein anderes Bettzimmer gefunden; Sam Lemke schob sein Bett an die andere Seite der Querwand, dam it der Zug ihm nicht unter die Matratze fahre; Ham Mutterer stand sogar schon vor clem Laeuten einmal auf~uebrigens cine gute Kur fucr eincn verschlafenden Bimmler—und verlangte El)erhard’s Noscguard fucr die naechste Nacht.

Diese kallcn Tage erregen auch sehr viel Mitleid bei unseren Automo1)ilbesitzern. Es scheint aber die Erfahrung zu sein, dass die, die Fords haben, noch am besten dran sind. Diese sind zwar scheuslich schwcr in Bewegung zu setzen, gehen aber gewoehnlich Die nach einer Stunde kraeftigen Kurbelns auf alien vieren.

• "" Chevie-besitzer ruehmen dann, dass sie ihre “Elephanten” in einer Minute in den Gang bringen koennen. Aber das Traurige bei dieser Sorte ist, dass sie zwar leicht in Gang zu setzen sind, gehen dann aber nur auf zwei Cylindern statt auf vieren. Das ist nun ein Problem fucr die Eigentuemer, das sie nicht zu loesen wissen.

Sie haben schon das Verschiedenste probiert. Haase und Zink haben schon alle Tage an der Nase ihrer Car operiert; bestaendig sieht man sie vor anstatt in ihren Auto; und alles ohne Erfolg!一 Herr E. Zimmermann, der das grausame Spiel sehr aufmerksam und lernbegierig beobachtet hatte, kam nun zu der Ueberzeugung, dass der Trubel einmal garnicht vorne zu suchen sei und fing an seine Chevie hinten auseinander zu nehmen. Ob aber diese Untersuchung erfolgreich war, ist auch hier noch nicht zu erkennen, und es scheint, die Chevie-pflegevaeter sind auch sehr wortkarg ueber den Erfolg.

Eins wissen wir nun noch, und das ist, dass unsere Basketballhelden auch ein kleines Lob haben sollten. Aber wir befuerchten, sie koennen’s nicht vertragen; auch wissen wir nicht, worueber wir sie am meisten loben sollten, da sie noch nicht viel gespielt und dabei oft verspielt haben. Es fehlt uns daher noch das rechte Urteil. Der bekannte Triumpfwagenlenker marschiert jetzt aber mit et'vas gebeugtem Haupte in dem Gefolge des Triumpfwagens.

Doch: De victis nihil, nisi bonum!

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3 nm(&$ The cycle of revolving years has brought us a new Father Time. The grey haired old father, whose scythe swished so many years in our halls, now cuts the swaths of hours in the gymnasium. * All that is meant, reader, is that the old hall-clock above the bulletin board has been taken' away to the gy mnasium and an electric chronometer put in its place. You scoff at this as insignificant and minor news, but have you ever thought how you would miss one of those high old kitchen clocks with its carved rococo case, if you were acustomed to seeing it daily, and it should presently be removed and a plain nickel-plated alarm clock set in its place. In that sense we miss the old relic in the hall and must acustom our­ selves to a new clock.

So this is January? A well known humorist writes in a Mil­ waukee paper that he likes January, because it is a good month to begin cash accounts and diaries. He tells us that he is accustomed to begin one every year on January 1, that he never keeps it going much beyond January 4, but that it certainly is very helpful. But let us add too that besides one’s .birthday there is no better day on the calendar to begin a diary. Can there be anything more useful or more inspiring to an ancestor-worshipping posterity than one of those good intimate types of deeply thoughtful and reflective, warmly passionate diaries, for direct publication or as a scourcebook for a later biography of us by admiring grandchildren or great-great-grandchildren. How they would cherish us, if they for instance, could ascertain directly from our own script that January 1，1929, it was bitter cold, that we awoke with cold feet, went to church, had breaded lamb chops for dinner, brandy-pudding and cranberries, saw “Scrambled Wives” at the theatre in the after251

noon, came home, ate supper, sat around, went to bed. But the sad part of most of the diaries people begin so bravely and inter­ estingly usually have lacunas or great open spaces from about January 3 to January 1 of the next year when they recollect that they began one once in good earnest.

And on the other hand January is a good month for examina­ tions, for so we are told. A necessary evil must' have its time and its tide. That evil might be perpetrated just as well in January as all months. Our week of examinations here began on the 21st.

Two sessions a day of three hours each are held for these. The second semester begins on the thirtieth. Cheer up! Only fiftythree days till Easter vacation.

Together with the host of colds the winter has brought our literary season on apfain. It is hardly necessary to say that we are sorry to see the first, but glad to see the second, for last year the literary societies, Philomathean and Phi Gamma Rho expressed a new intention. This purpose was to include in as many pro­ grammes as possible some dramatic piece, be it a recitation or a short play. Brief one act plays and farces seem to be popular with audiences and at the same time within the scope of the limited time alotted to the actors for rehearsal. Prof. Kiessling will direct these performances.

In his introduction of the literary season C. Lawrenz, president of the Phi Gamma Rho society, expressed the above intentions, stressed the usefulness of the work for participants and audience alike, and deplored the fact that debates underwent such neglect by our societies. The critic for the evening, Prof. W. Schumann differed from him in this instance stating that the time for the bulk of work and study pertinent to such debates was too limited, owing to our heavy schedules, and that most debates tend to lay bare a prodigious lack of original thinking. The professor also called to mind the bad taste of the gushing and unnaturalness put on by many debaters and all in all persuasively discouraged the idea, especially in our circles, as a burden without due advantage.

The programme included three poetic recitations, two fair de­ liveries by R. Otto and Th. Rosin, and a commendable recitation of Uhland*s famous poem, “Des Saenger’s Fluch.” Gerhard Schae­ fer talked briefly on the Holland Tunnel under the Hudson, and Luther Schliesser gave a violin solo accompanied by his brother Paul at the piano. The crowning piece of the evening was the one act play, “The Diabolical Circle,” in which Puritans and Cavalier sue for the hand of the Rev. Cotton Mather’s daughter, inclined to prefer periwigged Cavaliers to sombre Puritans. The dashing young beau, however, at last succeeds in placing the diabolical cir­ cle on Mistress Cotton’s finger. But the curtain denied us the “daunce of the Devil.”

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The colonial setting of the interior of the minister’s home was the neat work of Albert Eberhart.

It is indeed pleasant to see that interest in colleges does not yet lie altogether in the way of athletics. Literature and drama still claim their own when tastes are given a chance to show them­ selves. During the week ending the nineteenth Mr. Arliss, whose appearance last Autumn as Shylock in the Merchant of Venice, was cancelled on account of his illness, met a return date at the Davidson Theatre, Milwaukee. Many interested students, espec­ ially upper classmen, were seen there.

The cold and light influenza epidemic which swept the country did not leave us untouched. Because of the growth of the list and the congested conditions in the sick-room it was deemed best to close on the fifteenth of December. The announcement came rather suddenly from the faculty-room and it is remarkable, even amazing, that people who usually require a day or so to pack completed that work in just one hour.

wwm The Stentor of Lake Forest, Illinois, is usually quite interest; ing. It seems to reflect the atmosphere of the school to an unusual degree. It, with many other papers from small colleges, be'yails the lack of that intangible something: school spirit. In an editor­ ial in the December 11, issue, the editor advances what he thinks are five contributing factors to the apathy of the spirit of the col253

lege. No doubt they are factors, but they are hardly potent enough in themselves to be the real causes. The paper is well put up.

Another paper which deserves honorable mention is The Pa­ cific Star, of Mt. Angle College, St. Benedict, Oregon. The stu­ dents of Mt. Angle College evidently take the editing of their pa­ per seriously and the result must certainly be gratifying to them.

The peculiarity in this paper is that there is no space devoted to sports, whereas this topic occupies nearly one-third of the space in other college publications.

The Round Table of Beloit, Wisconsin, has snap and a variety of material which it presents, but has no literatry department. It’s feature, “Doctor’s Dilemma,M a column of home-made wise-cracks, detracts from the worth of the paper in our eyes. The editorial 一 in the December 8 issue, “Wake Up! Wake Up You Sleepy Heads!” is absurd. The writer seems ignorant of the purpose of chapel services. They are not to instill pep and high strung excitement in the students, similar to mass-meeting before a game. If the regular Bible lesson were discarded and Beloit songs put in the place of hymns, one wouldn’t call it chapel services.

Milton College Review, of Milton, Wis., is a bit too local in make-up to be of universal interest. The editorials, however, are usually good.

Five graduate students of the University of Wisconsin will this Fall assume the responsibility of assisting first-year men stu­ dents in the selection of their courses and in their adjustments to college life. The system is advocated in the belief that graduate students, themselves just finished with undergraduate work, can render more acceptable service to new students than older men whose student days are more remote.

Stanford University, together with many other schools, has noticed that cheating is all too prevalent, and that the school’s honor system is being demoralized by wholesale cheating. The senior class advocates the plan, that any student who catches his will rise and proclaim, “Someone is cheating neighbor cheat New Student has another proposal for check­ in this room. ing this orgy of cheating. Let someone rise in class and say, “Someone is cheating us with a false conception of what education consists.” He will then explain the stupidity of an educational system which lays the major emphasis upon the passing of grades and the purely external process of amassing1 crredits. The class will then march to the office of the president and devise an educa­ tional system in which the emphasis is placed upon understanding a certain body of knowledge. Then, perhaps, cheating will not be so prevalent.

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The varsity came back strong in the second half, and when but a few minutes were left to play, the score was tied. Just as the final whistle blew, Rutz dropped in the winning basket, thus making a spectacular close of an already tense game.

The varsity showed good teamwork for such an early date.

No shots were taken unless the ball had first been worked up under the basket. Our shooting, however, was anything1 but accurate.

Very many free throws were missed.

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The following started the game for Northwestern: Northwestern F.G. F.T. P.F. Witt, R. F. .4 0 4 0 Mackdanz, L. F.•…0 0 0 Pless (C), C____ A 1 Blumenthal, R. G...1 0 1 Stuhr, L. G. 10 1

Seminary F.G. F.T, P.F. 0 Zilz (C), R. F5 0 1 Hoenecke, L. F...... 3 Lenz, C.------------1 0 2 Voecks, R. G.____0 0 4 Eckert, L. G____ 1 2 1

Sachs and Wichmann of Northwestern were the officials.

Numerous substitutions were made.

Milwaukee Normal 25; Northwestern 23 Our second pre-season game resulted in a defeat of North­ western in a tight game. Milwaukee Normal scored first. Not to be outdone our speedy forwards soon after dropped in a few short shots to take and maintain the lead throughout almost the whole game. At the end of the first half we were leading by sev­ eral points. In the second half after a practical deadlock, the tide gradually turned in favor of the Normalites. We may mention here that our g-uarding was superb, and that our opponents could only score by shooting from the middle of the floor. Northwestern, on the other hand, took no long chance shots and missed many from immediately below the basket.

Substitutions were rare. Our coach had not the necessary good players to replace the tired regulars. The Milwaukee Nor­ mal coach did even less substituting. In fact the visiting team as­ sured us that their regular squad was unable to play on account of the players having contracted slight attacks of the “flu.” The team that appeared here was composed of freshmen. We wonder then what the regulars are like. The lineup was as follows: Northwestern Milwaukee Normal F.G. F.T. P.F. FG FT PF Stapelton, R. F••…4 6 1 Witt, R. F. 1 0 Gother, L. F............2 1 1 Rutz, L. F.---------0 4 2 0 —2 13 Pless, C.---0 4 Schroeder, R. G.2 0 3 Blumenthal, R. G. 1 0 0 Mahre, L. G.___ 1 Referee: Landowski. Substitutions: for Northwestern, Schwer­ in for Witt; Raasch for Blumenthal.

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vacation 'yitli all its inactivity, dissipation, and lack of training, Coach Kleinke again had his squad whipped into shape in prepara­ tion for our first game. The playing showed considerable improve■ ment since the two preceding contests in all phases of the game, itotably in the accuracy of our shots. Ruben Kettenacker again is playing his consistent game at guard, after recovering from a bad ankle sprain received in football. Stuhr, formerly a guard, was shifted to a forward position, where he acquitted himself well.

The Carroll College game at Waukesha on January eleventh, was, with the exception of the last six minutes, closse and exciting throughout. Northwestern scored first, and thereafter kept the lead until the closing minutes. The half ended nine to six in our favor. As the score indicates the guarding was well nigh perfect.

Coach Armstrong’s speedy forwards could score but one field goal in this first half against a lighter and smaller group of players.

With but six minutes left to play in the last half, when North­ western was leading by one point, Carroll dropped four field goals in close succession, Captain Kemppthorne scoring three of them. .Blumenthal of Northwestern, a guard, was the individual out­ standing player. Bizer and Captain Kemppthorne of Carroll did most of our opponents’ guarding and scoring respectively. The lineup: Northwestern Carroll F.G. F.T. P.F. F.G. F.T. P.F. Wolf, R. F. .2 1 0 Witt, R. F. Gheck, L. F. ___ 1 Rutz, L .F. 1 0 2 Kemppthorne, C. _3 1 2 Pless, C.— ___ 0 Bizer, R. G.____ 1 Kettenacker, R. G. 0 2 2 Goerke, L. G.__ 1 _ _________ , —. _. ^, Referee, Dyer. Substitutions: for Carroll: Krohn for Wolfe, Erdman for Goerke, Natilizio for Erdmann. For Northwestern: Stuhr for Witt, Harke for Rutz, Krueger for Harke, Raasch for Kettenacker.

BASKETBALL SCHEDULE Since the last issue of the “Black and Red” came from print, several additional games have been definitely scheduled, The complete schedule is as follows: fi January 30—Ripon there.

February 1—Carroll here.

February lA~Milton here.

February 23一North Central here.

February 27一Milwaukee Normal at Milwaukee.

March 2—Concordia at Milwaukee.

March 6~Milton at Milton.

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Tliis is the Soph number but the Sophs haven’t much to say for themselves. This column suffers from their insistence that the Sophomore's basketball team is a subject more fit for the joke column than for the Locals. They have been shovelling a great amount of snow recently, and this diversion, coupled with the prox­ imity of the final examinations, makes material somewhat scarce.

The lengthening of Christmas vacation was hailed with glad­ ness, especially by the students. Five or six stayed at the dormitory (luring the recess. Roth was employed at the J. C. Penney Company. Raasch, Vic Schultz, and Naumann bunked together, and the two last named gentlemen report that they had consider­ able trouble in waking Raasch at eleven each morning so that he could perform the culinary routine, which devolved upon him.

Henry Pussehl stayed at Jim Schaefer’s home in Iron Ridge, and Sippert spent his vacation in Jackson, Wisconsin, with Woldt. The boys who went home spent their time in various ways. Hans Schul tz worked in a drugstore in Milwaukee. Philipp and Alfred Sauer worked for the parcel post department in Winona, Minne­ sota. Reich did some inventory work for a sash and door com­ pany in Marshfield. The Sophomores, so we hear, wrote an Eng­ lish composition. Hallemeier ran his hand through a clothes wringer and has had it bandaged since then. Erwin Neubert, Man­ kato, Minnesota, did not return after vacation and is missed by his classmates and the student body in general.

The Bruns brothers left for their home in Sanborn, Minne­ sota, December third, 011 account of the death of their father. William Sachs did not return until January fifth, on account of the death of his father.

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Berndt spent several days at home recovering from a case of pink eye.

Mr. Fredericks of Tomah, Wisconsin, paid his son Howard a visit Sunday, January thirteenth.

“Mickey” Mackdanz broke a bone in his hand in the basketball game with the Seminary and will probably be out of the lineup all season.

Birthdays have been common since Christmas. The latest victims are Westphal, Nommensen, Edmund Sauer, and Walter Koepsell.

The preps recently furnished their smoking room. The move is regarded as a great progressive step in prep social circles.

Gerhard Meyer was snowbound when he went home to Mayville recently. As Kuehl has the story, Meyer was on his way back to Watertown when he was confronted by snowdrift after snow­ drift of mountainous size. Laden as he was with a basket or pack­ age of good things to eat for his roommates, turkey and six cakes and “Schinken” and other things that make college boys glad, he finally found himself unable to plough any farther through the wide, white waste. In a dilemma, he sent an S. O. S. by wireless to his monitor Kuehl, but as Kuehl was thoroughly steeped in the task of memorizing Hebrew verbs, he did not get the message.

Buoyed up in spirit by the hope that Kuehl, having received his call for help was on his way to the rescue, and nourished by the contents of the package or basket, which he thoroughly pilfered, Meyer stayed all night fast in the snowdrift, while the wind and the wolves howled and the stars blinked from their celestial height.

The next morning Meyer rode a snowplow to Watertown.―As no one has been found who is willing to vouch for, the veracity Kuehrs tale.

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Among those who are going to buy these clamps one sees adver tised, which are made to hold one's ears in place, are Mr. Carl Lawrenz, Mr. Louie Vater. In their opinion this is the best \yay to keep from freezing the auricular protrusions. The other victims of the subzero weather are undecided.

The Frosh created quite a stir when they appeared in the gym on January ninth all dressed up in their new basketball suits. The only way that they can be described is by saying* they look like clown suits, keeping in mind that the suit and not the Freshman is being described. All in all, though, the Frosh showed a good sense of novelty and a fine expression of wit in choosing their suits.

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The necessity of an extended vacation brought all plans for a Christmas party to an abrupt culmination. The event which had been so long anticipated had to be postponed indefinitely. This fact brought gradations of disappointment to our ranks. For one thing, we were forced to abolish the beautiful pine tree.

Since the resumption of studies, the girls held a business meet­ ing for the purpose of designating a new date for the party which was shorn of its holiday appellation. The majority could not brook delay. As a result, the eventful day became a reality on January ninth.

Several individuals honored the occasion by their presence as guests. Dorothy Heil, Alice Kuhnke, and Dorothy Pine, students who were familiar figures last year, were the honorary visitors, Everyone came in costume. Shrieks of laughter abounded as surveys took place and mutual recognitions followed. The feature of the evening, however, was the presentation of a play entitled, • > The Fatal Piil,” The members of the cast were: Mrs. Bosser, Glenna Rasmussen; Mr. Bosser, Gertrude Wendland ; Florence Bosser, the daughter, Dorothy Groth; Jack Gusher, the young man, Betty Jaeger.

Its great success was due to the conscientiousness and diligence of the cast as well as that of the director, Alice Bentzin. To these we extend our hearty congratulations. More entertainment and the indispensable refreshments brought the affair to a close. Again, we have pleasant reminiscences of another successful party.

We were very sorry to learn that Nancy McLaughlin, a Fresh­ man, had discontinued college.

Alice Bentzin attended the presentation of “Porgy” in Mil­ waukee several weeks ago.

As this number of the “Black and Red” is reserved for the Sophomores, we shall utilize this opportunity to “elevate” this branch of the aforesaid class. Thus, Alice Bentzin is the member who is illustrious in the field of dramatics. Her renown will speak for itself. Alice Dierker, a versatile student, is an indispensable addition without whom we could not be complete. Henrietta Guetzlaff fulfills another necessity. She prevents us from being uncos­ mopolitan. Leona Priem administers our pecuniary office with great efficiency. Marie Taras is now our representative in pedagogy. She recently accepted the position at Stevensville, Michigan, which was formerly held by Alice Kuhnke. We take this opportunity to wish our classmate the best of success in her first position as a teacher. The foregoing aggregation is not without 260

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German Class (Muss ein Uhrkind ge'vescn sein).

Siegler: Hagen hat sein Kind streng aufgezogen.

Prof.: “Peters, was heisst “seltsam1 wenn man von seltsam bekleideten Jungfrauen redet?”

Doc: “Selten!” * BEWARE OF PROTESTANTS (Soph English Comp.) Milton’s father was a Protestant; his mother was a just and upright woman. 本

NEW YEAR’S SPIRIT Milton’s father imbibed his love for political and religious liberty to his son.

ICONICS, ICORNY, ICOMPANY Taxi Service We also carry a complete line of parts for all makes or models.

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srhe DID YOU EVER SEE “Jack” Dahlke with a grouch?

“Slim” Baumann’s mustache?

“Doc” Pete when he wasn’t deeply interested in music?

“Fat” Schewe keep his eyes off the picture on his desk?

Raasch trying to keep awake the Sophs. Flop in in classes ?

Oscar Naumann smile ?

Trapp sit in one corner of a classroom and Krueger in the other? 氺

HISTORY CLASS Prof.: “What predicament was Rome in when it was surrounded on all sides by barbarians ?** Siegler (waking up) : “Starvation.”

Trapp: “Say, Jack, where’s your mustache?”

Jack: “A'v, I wore that off during- Xmas vacation.” * Prof.: “Any absentees?”

Class: “Yes, Schoenwetter.”

Prof.: “Oh! that doesn’t make much difference.”

Woldt: (Comes into bedroom, finds the light does not burn, goes to his locker and tries to find something. After much search­ ing he strikes a match and says: “I wonder where it is.”

Rhode: “What arc you looking for?”

Woldt: “My vest.

Rhode: “Why man, you’ve got it on.” 氺

Teacher: “Do you know what the little mouse does?”

Johnny: “Naw!” Teacher: “That’s right.” 氺*

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An oyster is a fish built like a nut. 氺

‘Bill is going to retire from business for five years.”

‘Oh, I’ve heard him say that before.”

Yes, but this time the judge said it.” 本氺氺 Prof.: “Joecks, are you chewing gum in my class?}, Joecks: “No, this ain’t gum, it’s tobacco.”

Prof.: “Oh, I beg your pardon.”

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FROM COAST TO COAST An officer on board a battleship was drilling his men.

“I want every man to lie on his back, put his legs in the air and move them as if he were riding a bicycle ,，，he exclaimed. “Now begin.”

After a short effort one of the men stopped. “Why have you stopped, Murphy?” asked the officer.

“If you plaze, sor,” was the reply, “Oi’m coastin’.”

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LITERARY— Fickle Hearts (Poem)

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The Music and Musical Instrtinients of the Ancient Romans

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Chain Stores in the United States

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Watertown, Wis., Feb., 1929

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FICKLE HEARTS 1 stumbled through the drifting snow To search for something lost; To find the heart that long ago I thought was mine.

I，(l been away or gone to sleep.

I am not quite sure which.

All that was left for me—to weep In cold and wind.

In morbid haste I hurried on And grimly cursed the snow.

And then I knew the heart was gone And I—alone.

Insensate numbness clutched my brain.

I staggered, stumbled on Until I dropped my weary frame To freeze and die, When someone seemed to brush my side.

I raised my head to see A fleeing, black-haired maid astride A milk-white doe.

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I rose, to find a milk-white buck Beside me, stomping, ready.

I thought this thaumaturgic luck To start pursuit; For, in her fleeting, ghost-like passing, The maid had snatched my heart.

And far away I heard her laughing— Then I awoke.

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THE MUSIC AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS OF THE ANCIENT ROMANS Although the Romans, conquerors of the world, law givers and road builders, achieved many great things that have made their name to pass from generation to generation down to the present lime; yet, in the field of music, they distinguish themselves more by the failure of having added anything that was new or lasting, than by a cultivation of this art which has been the means of many nations in which to express their joy and sorrow, and to reveal to the world their ideas of beauty. The Romans were too busy pro­ tecting their homes against the' plundering; invaders, they were too much ocupied in forming their nation, conquering the neighboring countries, making laws and establishing a good government; their thoughts were too busy with the erection of bridges and aqueducts, of baths and amphitheaters; so that music, the art of the peaceful, was compelled to remain in the background. Not until in the late years of this nation, when they have laid aside their weapons, when men are living in ease and comfort on the wealth they have gained from the subjected provinces and by means of their big business enterprises, not until then do we hear songs embellishing their ban­ quets, melodies issueing softly from flutes, and lyres finding audi­ tors among the poets and patrons of art.

But to call it Roman music were an injustice. The art of the Muses never had the chance to grow and flourish and become a national self-existing art in Rome, a thing cultivated by the rich and the poor not with the only aim of affording pleasure to the hearer because of the proficient and skillful digital performance of the viruoso, but as a language of the soul in which to express its sentiments and emotions. Music was at best cultivated to increase the pleasures of life; it served as pure ornamentation and substi­ tuted for artistic feeling mere effect, which it attained not by in­ trinsic merit, but by brilliancy and display. There was an absence 265

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in Roman life of that mysterious and mystical element which is so congenial to the inventive power of the musician. Even to the last days of this great people, g-enuineness in art was not their highest delight; they were content with a mere semblance of it.

But just as in the clays of decline and degeneration in Greece, Rome began to appreciate the ideals the Greeks had lived for, and to stand in awe and in wonder gazing up to the heights which their neighbors and forerunners had attained in literature, in architec­ ture, in painting, and in sculpture, just so they now listened to the choruses of Greek dramas and wondered at the beauty of Greek composition. While conquering the world, the Romans had found no time for art; their interests lay in the real and visible, the prac­ tical. But now that their work was finished, they needed some— thing to replace this interest. Thus Greek culture crept into Rome, and with the gods of their eastern neighbors, with their literature, with their statues and ideas of architecture, music also found a place in this metropolis of the ancient world.

The earliest instrument that seems to have been known to the Romans was the tibia, a flute-like reed, producing a sound similar to that of our present-day oboe. Without doubt the invention of the tibia does not go to the credit of the Latins, but it was a copy of a similar instrument used by the Etruscans, the double-flute.

From representations depicted on Etruscan vases, it would appear that this instrument was largely used in the celebration of their funeral rites. But it is known that it was also employed to accompany festive dances, and also in their sacred services to their gods. If any instrument were to be called the Roman national in­ strument it is the tibia, since it is the only one not directly bor­ rowed from some other nation.

As might have been anticipated among so warlike and aggres­ sive a people, the Romans possessed an unusually large number of martial instruments. Chief among these were the Tuba and the Buccina. The former, somewhat in the shape of a trumpet, was used to give to the legions the signal for the “advance” and the “attack.，The purpose of the horn-like Buccina, which curled around the body of the performer, seemed to have been to direct the movement of troops detached from camp. Both these instru­ ments were also used in triumphal processions.

In the cultivation of vocal music, the Romans were much in­ ferior to other nations. The stimulating enthusiasm which the musicians of other peoples received from their poetical brethren was entirely wanting to the Roman musician, since the lyric poetry of Rome lacked the passionate expression of the heart. It was either too rhetorical or didactic, or it was so philosophical and con­ templative as to be totally incapable of stimulating1 the inventive 266

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po'vers of the musician. Even after Greek life had begun to influence Roman ways of living, the song could not hold its ground and degenerated, so that at its best it remained but a chant or re­ citative.

But in other ways the coming of Greek art was of some benefit to the Romans. They adopted the Greek modes and scales and showed great interest in the theory of music, which developed more independently with them than any other musical phase. The orchestra also was used very extensively, especially as accompani­ ment for the drama. Among the instruments mentioned of which their orchestras were composed are cymbals, gongs, castanets, tles, flutes, bagpipes, and lyres, both large and small. Most of these were adopted from the Greeks. Especially to be remembered among them is the lyre, of which Greeks wrote and thought very much, and which even laler among the Romans found an impor­ tant position in their literature.

More cannot be said about the music of the Romans. This otherwise so great a people, which knew how to accomplish many things that have given them fame to this very day, had no heart for a native production of a national music and could at the best only borrow from others to further their enjoyment. Therefore to study Roman music one must first have a knowledge of the music of the nations from which they adopted it; what they pro­ duced themselves is very little.

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CHAIN STORES IN THE UNITED STATES When one goes down Main Street in Watertown, or in fact in almost any town of a few thousand population, lie can’t help noticing a certain store with prominent sliow-windows and a bright red front, displaying the well-known name, **F. W. Woolworth.”

The \Voolworth building in New York (sometimes called ^Woolworth s monument to the dime”) has done much to advertise this company; and it is also from F. W. Woolworth that we have the significant expression, was useless as a piano salesman in a Woolworth Store.”

But Woolworth was not the first man in the field of chain stores, for in 1859 Geo. H. Hartford started a wagon route in New York City which has finally evolved into the great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company. It is the largest chain in the country and has 18,000 stores. The United Cigar Stores were founded in 1901 and may yet prove to be the most interesting development in chain stores. This company is owned by several manufacturers, who are gradually changing these cigar stores to combinations of confec267

tionery and drug stores. Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward are opening more and more so called retail stores to meet the com­ petition of the chain stores. The J. C. Penney Company, founded in 1902, is the largest chain in the dry goods line. Mr. J. C. Pen­ ney has proved that dry goods as well as groceries can be sold to the public at a saving, without a forfeit of profit.

Now, why is the success of these “chains” so outstanding?

One big reason is the fact that they sell for cash and so eliminate bad charge accounts. By selling for cash they have money to buy for cash and in that way take advantage of discounts given by wholesalers. The Harvard Bure;iu of Business Research reveals that the chain grocer pays only 88.7 cents for merchandise which costs the independent grocer one dollar. By having a combination of stores, a company is able to hire efficient men at a very small cost to each unit. For instance the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Com­ pany with its 18,000 units could hire a merchandise expert at $90,000 a year, and it would only cost each unit five dollars a year.

For these reasons the chain store can undersell the independent stores and take customers a'vny from the higher-priced seller.

If the chain store should continue to be as successful in the future, one wonders if the entire process of distribution would not at last come under a few men. This is exactly the thing that Americans have been fighting for years with a keen competition.

The Independent Grocers Alliance of America now has a member­ ship of fitty-two wholesalers in twenty-six different states with about 10,000 retail outlets. By the end of the next year they intend to have a memhership of 20,000. In the drug field McKerson and Robbins have merged fifteen wholesalers who have contact with fifty-five per cent of the independent drug stores. These will offer good competition to the “chains.” It is true that it is more eco­ nomical to run two stores than one, and ten than five; but when an organization becomes too big, it becomes unwieldy and brings about its own destruction.

So, the American citizen need not become alarmed. that all the common people will soon be serfs or slaves to a few monied men. Mass production has brought about the prosperity of this age; to keep up this prosperity mass distribution is necessary.

Therefore it is the economical conditions that are doing away with the independent merchant and not the “chains” in themselves.

H. P”，30.

STOLZENFELS Stolzenfels is the best preserved castle on the Rhine. Until the end of the World War it was the property of the German em268

perors. The castle is above the little town of Dapellen, about three hundred feet above the Rhine. From Koblenz, a city of 60,000, it is distant a fifteen minutes’ drive. At the bottom of the road leading to the castle is a small inn where donkeys are kept. They carry tourists up to the castle. We had motored down though and thus did not make use of the donkeys. The road was only wide enough for one auto, and if we should have met another car, we should have been ill quite a predicament. We reached the draw­ bridge though without any mishap. Within the grounds we left the car and walked to a door and rang a bell. The keeper soon made his appearance and invited us in. He gave us huge felt slip­ pers to don over our shoes in order that we should not scratch the floors, which were very highly polished.

First he took us to the chapel, where the walls and the ceiling were painted with Biblical scenes. The most impressive painting was of Adam and Eve in Paradise. They are standing in a grove of trees. A snake is hanging from the tree nearest Eve and seenis to be whispering to her to eat that large, reel apple that is hanging just above her head. From the chapel he led us into the reception room with its chandeliers of glass and gold sparkling like ever so many diamonds. And a more highly polished floor is seldom to be seen. After passing through a few rooms of minor importance, but of wonderful beauty, we stepped into the emperor's bedroom.

Between two large windows facing the Rhenish vineyards was an exquisitely carved, heavy bedstead with a rich, purple curtain round about it. Near the bed was a delicately carved table, upon which was a clock about two feet in height, made of gold, and enclosed in a glass case. Then, after the keeper had taken us up into one of the towers, he finally led us down into a room filled with innumerable antiques, such as swords, suits of armor, little cannons with a host of little iron balls, spears, daggers and other antiques, While we were admiring- the articles, one of our party asked the keeper why there was no legend connected with this castle. We had looked through books that deal with the Rhine and its legends, but of Stolzenfels we had found nothing.

For a while he said nothing, but finally with a grave smile the old keeper bade us sit down by the window, where we had a view of the Rhine. He too sat down, crossed his legs and looked searchingly out of the window. Thus he sat for about five min­ utes, we five making no noise whatever. He finally faced us and, with a turn or two of his heavy fingers twisting the ends of his brushy mustache, he began: “As the evergreen moss crowns gray, old ruins, so German folklore beautifies German history. The learned write history, the common people make legends. These two are sometimes so inter­ woven that, to decide which is history, which folklore, is impos269

siblc. But where the historian knows the least, the common peo­ ple know the most, and folklore fills out the gap left open by the historian; where history has recorded facts, folklore is quiet.

“Thus it is why Stolzenfels, the most beautiful castle on the Rhine, has no legend .History has kept a record of this magnificent architecturail ge m, and poetry is wisely silent before Clio’s serious, truthful pen. The art-loving, learned king of Prussia, Frederick William IV. rebuilt the castle on the foundations of one which was built in 1254 and destroyed in 1689 by the French. Thus it stands today as a work of art, but at the same time a monument to the Middle Ages, a memory of great men and great deeds.

“The Rhine is one of the great stages of history where the great men from Caesar to Napoleon and William have played their roles, and where great nations still play their parts. Nature though has lent the decorations to this drama. In ancient times a lone woman was the cause of a bloody war. For the possession of the beautiful Helen there was a ten years’ struggle. But for the Rhine they have fought for hundreds of years—and no end is in sight, This river has cost us many tears and much bloodshed; nevertheless, we fecl richly compensated when we are again able to say •Our Rhine! my Rhine!’ To understand those words though, one must have seen, have realized the inspiration which the Rhine awakes in one.

It was July, 1870. ‘War! War!， was the cry throughout Germany—war with a strong enemy, with la grande nation, the most beloved river, was in great nation. The Rhine, GermaiiyJs rr dang( ger. Fathers, sons, husbands, broth ers, friends were to move to the front tomorrow, to fight for it, to die. In the middle of the night thousands upon thousands stood below us on the bank. It was as quiet as death. On the tops of the surrounding hills fires were started. The river was lit up, and it threw the light along its banks, where the people stood with livid, ghastly faces. Silence hung as heavy as incense in a temple. But suddenly there resound­ ed between the hills and far beyond, as if a roaring wind had broken Rhein.’ It was a certainty then loose, the anthem ‘Die Wacht ―We shall win. The Rhine will remain with us. It will not be paid too dearly if for each drop of water we sacrifice one drop of blood. And another thing I learned that night as I, a mere boy, heard for the first time that inspiring melody. That the soldier, of course, fights for the fatherland, but the poet and composer must first show him the full value of that for which he fights.

Great poets create great heroes and vice versa.

“The Rhine will remain German. No other people could love it as we. These hills and castles, these villages and cities, these churches and monasteries relate German history, relate deeds of German men and German women. These monuments everywhere 270

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on the Rhein praise German poets, German composers, German statesmen. These fields, these vineyards, these forests, extol Ger­ man labor, German industry. What was here built and planted, written and composed, that our fathers built, planted, wrote, and composed. What other nation than we could so love and praise this stream!

“People with blue eyes and blonde hair control the Rhein to­ day, and blue-eyed blonde-haired people controlled it at first. Here lived the Celts, an educated people. They built towns, had salt springs, sailed in boats, understood Greek, and stamped money with Greek inscriptions. They are the ones that named the river below us the ‘Rhein’. This word to them meant ‘the way’, since this river with its tributaries was the only way they had to reach other places; round about them was the wilderness and the endless forest.

“The Celts were far ahead of their time, too far. They lacked the fierce strength of other tribes, which was necessary to keep back the Germans. ‘The Romans should always consider the Rhein as the western boundary of their empiire; they should never cross this stream/—that is the wise advice C aesar gave his country after he himself had twice crossed the Rhein in vain. Since the people that were to oppose the Romans here had to l)e a mighty, half-wild people the Celts had to make room for a fiercer people.

They vacated their land to a people who could tear a live bear apart.

These terrible fighters were called ‘Germans，’ men of the spear, because ‘Ger’ means spear. The Roman empire expanded more and more until it came to the Rhein. Fighting- with German tribes, Rome met its doom. The Germans on the Rhein cut the Roman giant its first wound, whereby it slowly bled to death.

“Out of the> ruins of the Roman culture arose a new one一the Christian. And where in Germany was the cross first pointed to­ ward heaven ? No where else but on the Rhein. Soon the human race sprung up anew. This new religion also changed the politi­ cal life, gave the human race new ideals, new goals, ennobled the men, so that they lived after this motto : ‘A Dieu mon ame, Ma vie au roi, Mon coeur aux dames, L’ honneur pour moi.’

‘To God my soul, My life for the king, My heart to the ladies, The honor for me.’

“Minnesingers sang the glories of the women, knights sacri­ ficed themselves for the life of their king. And was the church in need, then even priests and bishops carried armor and the sword.

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But where was this golden period at its best? Where else, but on the Rhein!

But the best fruit shrivels, and the prettiest flower withers.

Even knighthood died out, and something new had to spring up.

The nobility of arms was followed by the nobility of honest labor、 and intelligence. Gunpowder and the press were the heralds of this new era. And wliere were they born in Germany ? Where else, but on the Rhein! And the conflict of the new-coming era against the old, decayed one, the war of the peasants and the nobility, the servants against their masters_where did this rage the severest? Where else, but on the Rhein!

"At the close of the last century when the French cleared away the last remains of the Middle Ages, when a new freedom, a new happiness, arose out of the blood of the French Revolution, and when the great Napoleon look it upon himself to carry the fruits of this revolution throughout Europe—where were they first seen?

Where else, but on the Rhein!

“A legend Stolzenfels will never tell you. But instead it recalls all these memories into your mind and many others, More than nineteen hundred years ago there stood here only a Roman tower. Was (.■nemy seen steathily approaching, then the sentinels notified the legion below at the foot of the hill. Roman weapons, walls, niiloicmes，graves are reminiscences of their deeds, their strength, their cleverness, their death.

•’Out of tliis Roman tower there arose a knight’s, castle, in which all the pleasures, Iwt also all the follies of the Middle Ages were seen • Here are the goblets which were often emptied from sunset until sunrise by knights, priests, and electors. Here is the armor of the warlike and learned Archbisliop Balcluin of Trier, called ‘The Lion of Luxemberg,f who always followed his maxim, *Es ist besser mit dc*m Schwerte dVein zu schlagen, als einen Segen niit clem Kreuzo zu erteileii.’ Over there was a black kitchen where they tried to produce gold. Here also the most chivalrous of all German emperors, Frederick II., received his bride, Isabella of England, with brilliant feasts and minnesongs.

“Here is the dagger of the man who made more trouble for his executioner than for his secretary—the dagger of Duke Alba. Here is the iron hand of stalwart Goetz von Berlichingen, who, though belonging to the nobility, led the peasants against them; this iron hand fought for the cause of the oppressed ones. The sword up there to the left on the wall was carried against the Reformation.

It once belonged to Tilly, the man who set a large city afire with the words, ‘Der Soldat muss auch einmal eine Freude haben/ And yonder, do you see those two crossed swords ? The hand that held those with a battle saved Christianity in Germany after the Refor­ mation. The noble, patriotic Pole, John Sobiesky, carried one of 272

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them when in the year 1683, he defeated the Grand Vizier Cara Mustapha with all his Turks before Vienna. To him we are thank­ ful that a cross glistens on St. Stephen’s church in Vienna instead of a half moon. "Above all observe that Damascene dagger with • its handle ornamented with ivory. With it Napoleon fought his battle in Egypt.

"Now, if finally your eyes are satisfied with seeing these numerous old weapons and works of art, and your ears satisfied with the memories of past time which they awaken, then look down into the valley. A locomotive is puffing and panting away down below us and is pulling a long train of coal cars behind it; involuntarity you murmur the poet's words, *Das Alte stuerzt.es aenderl sicli die Zeit, Und neues Leben blueht aus den Ruinen’.’’

We chatted together awhile and after many “Auf Widerselien” we motored over the drawbridge, wound our way to the highway beside the Rhein and turned toward Koblenz.

Castle Stolzenfels is very easily reached. Those who are at the nearby health resorts, namely, at Ems, Kreuznach, or Langenschwalbach have easy access to it. Although being in small towns, the health resorts nevertheless have excellent train and bus service.

A trip from one of these spas to castle Siol/.enfels will never be forgotten.

P. S”，30.

WORIN OFFENBART SICH LUTHERS IN^ENLEBEN IN SEINER SCHRIFT AN DEN CHRISTLICHEN ADEL DEUTSCHER NATION? Wenn wir Luthers Schriften durclilcscn, so findeii wir, dass sie nicht leblose，erkuenstelte Reihen von Woi.ten sincl, 'vie sie manclie Schriftsteller zu fabrizieren wissen, sondern dass aus den Worten der Mann herausschaut 'vie er lebt und handelt. Man merkt es, es ist hinter den Schriften der innerliche Drangf, der ihn zwingt, die Worte zu Papier zu bringen, dam it er sich Luft schafft. Luther war ein Mensch, der seine Gefuehle nicht gern unterdrueckte; wenn etwas auf seinem Herzen lag-, so musste es raus. Wenn die meisten Leute so schreiben wuerden, 'vie sie denkn, dann koennte das ein gar gefaehrlich Ding 'verclen，clenn unsere Gedanken sind nicht immer die edelsten. Aber was Luther draengte unci trieb, das •. waren meist edle Gedanken, wie wir sie bei einem so grossen Mann und tief frommen Christen erwarten wuerden.

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Ammassung, class er, ein armer, unwuerdiger Moench, es wage, die hohe, grosse deutsche Regierung anzureden und sogar noch ihr wollen. Ein anderer haette vielleicht zu raten und sie lehren gesagt: “Icli weiss wie die Dinge in der Kirche stehen. Nun hoert auf micli, wenn ihr gescheit seid.”

Doch niclits von alledem merken 'vir: er meint vielmehr, er sei seinem Gott noch eine Torheit schuldig, wenn es ueberhaupt eine Torheit sei und zeigt dadurch zugleich seine tiefe Ergebeiiheit Zll Gott. Noch fast in deni sclhen Atom spricht er aus, nicht seine eigene Ehre, sondern Gottes Ehre 'voile er suchen.

Luther weiss, class cs sich urn eine ernste Sadie handelt und vertraut da her nicht auf seine eigene Vernun ft und Weisheit, deren er allerdings gcmig besitzt, sondern allein auf den Schutz und die Fuehrung seines Gottes. Wii. koennten uns vielleicht manchmal ein Bcispiel an dicscm Mannc nehmen. Luthers Innenleben zeigt sich in dem Glauben, der Gottes Hilfe sucht, der keine Menschenfurcht kennt und der allein auf dem Wort besteht, das sein Herr geredet.

Luther will in seinem Vorhaben nichts von Menschenhilfe wissen. Glcich An fang schreibt er, * man muesse nicht vertrauen auf grosse Maclu odcr Vermin ft, ol) man gleich die gauze Welt besaesse/' Dcun sci sclion oft genug bewiesen, class Menschen mit ihrer Maclu nichts vcrmochten, wo sie sich nicht in den Schutz des allmacclitii»cn Gottes stellten. Dieser Glaube, der die Hilfe Gottes sucht, ist (lurch (lie gauze Schrift ersichtlich. Luther weist z. 13. in cinem arnlcrn Teile darauf bin, class die Fuersten versucht haben, die Schacden in der Kirche Zll bessern. Dies haben sie aber nicht in \Tc*rtrauen auf Gott getan, sondern indem sie auf ihre eigene Macht pochtcn. Luther zeigt atich, class aus cliesem Grunde die gewuen sell ten Resultate ausgeblieben sind. ― Da er sich seinem Gott ergeben hat, vertraut er auch auf ihn.

Er klagt im seiner Schrift, “die drei Mauern der Romanisten,” die Fuersten an, class sie sich von clen Fuersten haben einschuechtera lassen. Doch Luther denkt nimmer daran, sich vor der Gewalt cler Kirche 7A\ fuerchten. Der Mann, der vor Kajetan gestanden hat, der Mann, der auf clem Reichtstage zu Worms, von aller Macht der Welt umringt, keinen Fingerbreit von seiner Ueberzeugung abwich, cler gedenkt auch jetzt nicht, durch irgendeine Drohung der paepstlichen Macht sich einschuechtern Zll 'lassen. Darum greift er auch den Papst in seinen Lieblingstheorien frisch und munter anvobwohl er weiss, class er dadurch das Gewitter des roemischen Zornes ueber sich entladen wird. Er sagt frei heraus: “So mag es je geschehen, class der Bapst und die Seinen boes sein und nit rechte Christen sein, noch von Gott geleret rechten Verstand haben....

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haetten. An ciner anderen Stelle schreibt er: ‘Wir soil ten mutig' und frei werden und den Geist der Freiheit nit lassen mit ertichten Worten dcr Bapst absclirecken’.” Nur ein Luther konnte so kuehn und frei reden, denn er stritt an der Seite Gottes und konnte so gegen irgend jemand bestehen.

Luthers Glauben gruenclet sich allein auf die Schrift. In seinen haeufigen Beispielen, die er in den “drei Mauern” anwendet, laesst sich (lies leicht erkennen. Geht er einer schoenformuHerten Theorie des Papstes su Lei1)e, so zieht er das blanke, zweischneidige Schwcrt der Schrift und schwingt es mil solchem Effekt, class niclits davor bestehen kann. Und seine Argumente sind so trefflich, so ueberzeugend, dass es einen immer Wmider n eh men muss, dass nicht mehr Leute von der roemischen Kirche abgefallen sind. Kommen ihm die Papisten mit der Behauptung-, geistliche Macht sei hoeher als weltlichc, gleich kommt Luther mit den Beispiel von den Gliedern und zeigt, class alle Christen gleiches Standes sind und dass nur ein Unterschied des Dicnstes existiert. Wollen sie die Schrift allein auslegen, so ant wort ct 1 .uther ihnen mit__der Schrift, jeder Christ babe das Reclit, (lie Schrift aus7.iilegen. Stuetzen sie sich darauf, dass sie allein ein Kon/.il berufen koennten, antwortet Luther ihnen mit Matthaeus 18, 15-17. Er hat das Wort illm nicht nehmcn. angenommen, er 1)leibt dal^ei; sie kocuncn Es hat lange genug genonimen. bis cr :air Krkcnntness gekommen ^ ist; aber nun laesst er (las teure Gesclicnk nicht 'viecler los; es ist sein im Leben und im Ster1)en : Das trcihl ihn denn auch, den theologischen Lehrern zu raten, sie soli ten nidir die l-iibel lesen, als (lie Sentenzen studieren. Das Gotteswort ist ihm teuer; er will es auch andern mitteilen. Er schlaegt Macdchenschnlen vor, in dencn die jungen Maedchen eine Gelegenheit halien moegen, das Evangeliem zu hoeren.

Luthers Innenleben zeigt sich in cler L.icbe zum Naechsten.

Am An fang seiner Schrift schreit er zu Gott und bittet um Hilfe und Befreiung von der Not und Beschwcrde. die das deutsche Land zu Boclen drueckt. Er erinnert damn, dass jetzt ein junger Kaiser an der Spitze der Nation steht, und class man viel Hoffnung des auf diesen setzt. Das Gebet komml aiis einem Herzen, das —_^___ Elends voll ist , und das jammerl ueber das El end seiner Mitchristen und Mitbuerger. Es ist nicht dahin gesetzt als eine blosse Form sondern hat den reiclisten Inhalt. Luther weist nach, class das Volk nur innerlich befreit werden kann, wenn ihm die Grundlehren das Evangeliums ans Herz gelegt werden. Er strengt sich daher an, die Grundwahrheiten immer wieder zu betonen. Die wichtigste Lehre scheint ihm die Lelire vom allgemeinen Priesterhtum. .

Schreibt er doch schon in seinem ersten Stoss gegen (lie **drei Mauern.

Ihr seid ein koeniglich Priestertum und ein priesterlich Koenigreich" (1. Pet. 2, 9) und gleich darauf: “Du hast uns ge275

I macht clurch dein Blut zu Priestern und Koenigen.” Er betont, class das Verkuenden des Wortes nicht allein Sadie des Ageistlichen Standes” ist, son deni class jeder Christ clie Pflicht hat, auf seine Weise das Evaiigeliurn zu verbreiten. Sind die Christen aber nun einmal von diesem allgemeinen Priestertum ueberzeugt, so sollcn sic es auch gebrauchen. Luther fuehrt ein Beispiel aus Paulus an : wenn einer in der Versammlung die Schrift auslegt, unci es ist da ein andcrer, der es hcsser kann, so soil ihm Gelegenheit gegeben werden, dies zu tun. So hat ein jeder Christ clas Recht, die Schrift auszulcgcn. Wenn dann ein anderer, z. b. der Papst, mit einer andcrcn Lchrc kommt, so hat der Christ clas Recht, in der Schrift zu pruefon, ob (lie Lehre recht sei oder nicht. So soil er auch deni Xacchsten gegenueber auftreten mit seinem Priesterrecht.

Wenn claim sein Naechster suendigt, soil er ihn nach der Schrift strafen. Dies schliessi auch den Paj)st ein, denn nach der Schrift sollte er auch unser P»ruder scin, wo fern er ein Christ zu sein behauptet.

Luthers Inncnldien offenbart sich (lurch den Patriotismus und clas National^oi'uchl. das besonders im letzten Teile seiner Schrift zu 丁age trill. J.:r spricln fast (lieselben Gedanken aus, d[e- Walter von der Vogel weide schon vor ihm augesprochen hatte. Das Land wurde von den ' \Yclsclicii’” ausgebeutet und (lie Leute bis aufs Blut geschunden. Da waren (lie grossen Kosten des paepstlichen Hofes, (lie Annatcn, (k.r /inskauf und viele andere Uebel mehr. Luther bricht aus in clen Rut: “O, ihr cdeln Fuersten und Herren, wie lang wollt ihr cuer ) .and und Leut vor solchen reissenden Woelfen offen und frei lassen/' Anclerswo macht er den Vorschlag, die Kurtisane aus Rom prompt in den Fluss zu werfen. Doch er schlaegt auch Plaene vor, viclen von diesen Uebeln abzuhel fen; wenn sie auch praktisch waren, so beweisen sie doch, dass Luther in nicht immer i dem Nationalyefuehl seinem Volk weit voraus war.

G. S.,，30.

THE CHINESE COOLIE Many miles across the Pacific Ocean, in a country of two million square miles—over three times the size of the United States— therei lives a backward, illiterate people, the Chinese. They are so unlike all other people, except the Japanese, that travelers often are tempted to ask, in wliat century those peculiar people are living; it assuredly cannot be the twentieth. Their manners, customs, language, and dress are so very different from those of other civil­ ized countries. Among this people there is a very interesting, yet pitiable class, the coolie.

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kind. They load and unpack trains and ships, haul many million tons of commercial commodities to the dealer and consumer, they construct roads and highways, in short, they do everything that the horses, mules, and trucks do in our country. Whenever a cargo of supplies enters the harbor, a guild of coolies immediately applies for the privilege of conveying these articles to their destinations.

The material is then loaded on spacious, weighty platforms mount­ ed on two large, wide-rimmed wheels. Three to ten coolies are then hitched to the carls, which are balanced and steered by two others in the rear. They thus pull and push these unwieldy loads all day long and at night receive their wages, which hardly amounts to fifty cents in our money. This, however, is not the only kind of work the coolie must perform. Certain sections of China are entirely destitute of lumber; this does not only effect their building operations, but also makes it almost impossible to procure firewood.

The Chinese therefore burn peat and charcoal, but they must find a way to transport this into the cities. The coolie, hard-pressed by starvation, also shoulders this duty. It is a common spectacle to see caravans of human porters alternate with caravans of camels on the same road, all carrying fuel, and it is no more expensive to employ the one than the other. Furthermnre, the coolie provides means of transportation for the populace, for trains are few and very poorly kept, especially in this riotous time. The coolie there­ fore conveys the traveler from place lo place in his rickshaw and, as most travelers will acknowledge, it is the most convenient form of travel in the world, that is, if we can forget that human beings are carrying us. Furthermore it is safe and hazardless; for who ever heard of fatal collisions between sedan chairs or of a pedes­ trian mortally wounded by speeding chair coolies?

As soon as the coolie arrives at the destination, lie demands his hire very exactingly. He will never permit any one, especially not a foreigner, to deceive him concerning the minutest fraction of the salary agreed upon. For instance, an American, a citizen of Massachusetts, was traveling from Hankow to Shanghai in one of these rickshaws. While he was leaving the city limits of Han­ kow, he incidentally met an acquaintance traveling in an automo­ bile, who invited his friend to accompany him to Shanghai in his auto. This of course necessitated that the coolies be discharged.

The American agreed to pay the coolie a clime for his duties, while in reality he had only earned eight klackers—there are sixteen klackers in our dime. The value of the foreign coin was unknown to the ignorant coolie, who, thinking that he was again deceived, let out a cry of alarm. Soon thereafter four or five coolies , came . upon the scene and jointly attacked the American, demanding just payment. He would have been in a dreadful predicament, but the coolie always fights with an open hand, scratching with his long 277

fingernails. Therefore any foreigner, using his fists, can easily overpower four or five coolies. The American soon proved his superiority with little effort; the coolies withdrew with the dime, cursing the dishonest foreigner and little realizing that their fel­ low-coolie had received a tip of eight klackers.

It is quite natural that the strength of the coolies can only be taxed thus for a limited time. When they notice that their vigor IS slowly leaving them, many fall to the shameful vice of opium­ smoking. which only promotes and hastens death. Physicians agree that carrying coolies seldom attain an age above forty-five or fifty.

It is obvious that these men are literally killing themselves by overexertion. Moreover, the conditions in which they live are deplor­ able. The city coolie sleeps on a plank in airless kennels on a! filthy lane with a block for a pillow and a quilt for a cover. They are always dressed in rags and even in mid-winter very scantily.

They seldom stop for midday meals. They’ll halt just for a few minutes in wliich they buy the cheapest food on the market and only a very small amount of that. There are no warm dinners to give tlrcm the energy necessary for the remaining hours of drudgcry. Surcly to olee out an existence under these conditions means slavery and servitude by far worse than it ever existed in our Southern States. And yet no voice is raised to better their con(litions. In Canton, a oily of over a million population, there was in 1922 not a single beast of burden. The results are plainly evi­ dent. The faces of these coolies are pale and haggard with a flat look of utter exliaustion, their jaws are sagged and their mouth is open with weariness. At rest they lean or droop against their carts with a corpsc-like sag, betraying utter depletion of vital energy, in a few vears they arc old men with faces wrinkled and with shoulders covered witli thick pads of callous. Inevitably their children approach the fate of their fathers: the child cannot be spared till he lias learned to read, but at the early age of ten or twelve he shoulders the yoke of his father.

Now the causes for such terrible wretchedness and misery are chiefly his appreciation of progeny and his superstitious beliefs.

The parents' prerogatives are posterity and a suitable match for their sons. There is therefore among them a veritable passion to have ofifspring—more offspring—as many as possible without pay­ ing heed to his economic prospect. Even a dead man is envied for the number of descendants in the male line who will walk in his funeral train: grandchildren and great-grandchildren are a special blessing- of heaven. The parents marry their sons before they are self supporting and the children continue to live in their parental home. We might well imagine that this immense drain on the family resources would prevent all chances of progress or of a respectable living. But in addition to this, there are their abom-

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inable superstitions. On certain festivals they burn money at the graves of their progenitors, or otherwise the departed are thought to be wandering about the land seeking rest and food. That is the final blow. The coolie with all his offspring is doomed to such a life of hardship; there is no escape.

Because the coolie is continually encompassed with starvation, his wits are exceptionally fertile in devising new ways of earning a living. Some, for instance, keep themselves alive by hiring themselves to incubate hens’ eggs 1)y their body’s warmth. Another striking example is that of a coolie of Peking1. The railroad had just been started between Peking and Tienstin. Some of the pre­ judiced and uncultured officials persuaded a coolie to throw him­ self before the locomotive, so that they could show the illiterate mass what a dreadful evil was being introduced into their country.

The coolie was promised a decent burial at their expense and about S250 for his family. The coolie consented to do this with the resuit that many miles of track were destroyed soon after. These are unusual cases, but the despair-stricken coolie can, when hard pressed with starvation, be employed to do many things which go almost beyond our imagination.

W. W.,，30.

PUBLIC GAMES IN ROME

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Games among the ancient Romans constituted a part of re­ ligious worship and were consecrated to some god. Later the games were given by State-officials in performance of a vow, or to appease the wrath of the gods when some calamity had befallen them, or at the dedication of a temple or a public building. Thus the game to Apollo was vowed and given for the first time in 212 B. C. After the defeat at Cannae, and four vears later was constituted a fixed annual festival. When the candidates for office saw that these games would further their cause in gaining the coveted office, these games fell into abuse, because the candidate spent his money on games with the intention of robbing many times as much money as he spent as soon as lie was in office. Especially those who wished to become procurators in a province would spend enormous sums of money on entertainments, for they would exact almost unbearable taxes from the province when elected.

The public games were first celebrated annually in Rome dur­ ing the third century before Christ. However, this one great festi­ val each year did not satisfy the Romans, and the result was that more games were gradually added. Usually the games lasted only one day, but later several days were devoted to each festival, 279

and the number was continually increased so that by the year 354 A. D., 175 days of each year were devoted to public games, exclud­ ing games held in connection with triumphs, games given by wealthy men on occasions of public rejoicing, and games given by emperors, to which invitations were issued.

The expenses of the annual games were paid by the State, which voted the amount needed for them to the magistrates re­ sponsible for the games. However, the Senate began to decree games without fixing the allowable sum beforehand, and the result was that the magistrates, anxious to make the games more elabor­ ate, often used more money than the State intended to set aside, or added to the State contributions from other sources.

All Roman citizens had the right of attending these public games and were admitted without charge. There were also some games given by wealthy men to which admission was charged, Slaves and foreigners were not allowed at the games, unless the foreigner was «*i pu1)lic guest. Some of the seats were, however, reserved to senators and other State-officials.

The games in the circus began with a procession from the Capitoline Hill into the Forum and then to the circus. The pro­ cession inclii(U、《i ihc images of gods on carriages and in frames,, or on men’s shoulders, with a great train of attendants, part on horseback am! part on foot. Following these were the combatants, dancers, musicians, and whoever wished to follow. As soon as the procession reached the circus the priest sacrificed to the gods.

After the procession had marched around the track once, everyone took his seal, and the games began as soon as the presiding officer dropped a white cloth from his reserved seat on the track.

Chief amonj；' the games in the Circus Maximus were chariot and horse races. The charioteers were usually slaves or men of the lowest classes who were supported by a wealthy Roman or by factions in the city. The drivers were distinguished by the color of their dress or chariot. The chief colors were red, white, blue, and green, but later Domitian added purple and gold. These colors alone decided the heavy betting and the favor of the spectators.

Neither the swiftness of the horses nor the skill of the drivers at­ tracted their attention. Therefore one can imagine the riot and even bloodshed, after the winner had been announced. During the time of Justinian no less than thirty thousand men are said to have been killed at Constantinople during a quarrel among the the partisans concerning the different colors. Originally four char­ iots ran in each heat, one for each of the four colors, and only a few races were run m one day. Under Domitian the number of chariots was increased and consequently racing lasted nearly all day. The order in which the chariots stood at the start of the race, and thus the advantage of the inside path, was determined by

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The first charioteer to round the track seven times was the victor.

He was then proclaimed by a herald and crowned, besides receiving the prize offered to the winner of the different races.

Very much attention was paid to the gladiatorial displays.

Gladiators were either prisoners of war, or condemned criminals.

At certain periods also free-born Roman citizens, some of noble birth, dwarfs and even women fought as gladiators, either for money or for sport. Wealthy Romans maintained bands of gladi­ ators and kept them all in one house, so tliat they could be care­ fully trained and brought into good fighting condition. Special foods were prepared for them, and they were required to observe a very definite routine. Gladiators first appeared before the public in 2(53 B, C. when the sons of Brutus appeared as gladiators at their father's funeral. For some lime gladiators were exhibited only at funerals, but, as the games progressed, gladiatorial con­ tests became a source of general amusement and popular enter­ tainment, although many men lost their lives in this manner. One example of these slaughters that has come down to us is the game given after Trajan’s victory over the Dacians, in which ten thousand gladiators are supposed to have fought. Usually there were only two gladiators fighting- at one time, but often whole bands fought at one time. After a preliminary parade the combatants at first had a sham-fight with wooden swords as a means of warm­ ing up. As soon as the trumpet was blown the real fight started and continued with great skill until one of the two was wounded.

The wounded gladiator would lower his arms as a sign of defeat.

But this act did not save him, for his fate generally rested in the hands of the spectators. All the wouiuled man could do was lift a finger as a plea for mercy. If the spectators then waved their handkerchiefs, he was saved, but if they turned up their thumbs, he was condemned to die by the sword, which act often brought forth great courage and fortitude on the part of the gladiators.

The victor nearly always received a palm branch as a reward al­ though some received money. In the year 326 A. D. under Con­ stantine the Great the gladiatorial displays were abolished and dur­ ing the following century disappeared entirely.

Venationes or the fighting of wild beasts with one another or against men became at one time quite popular in Rome. After the law against the importation of wild beasts into Rome had been repealed upon the death of Cato the Elder, 149 B. C., wild beast hunts in Africa and fights in Rome became a source of amusement.

In the year 99 B. C. the first elephants were exhibited in Rome, and six years later one hundred lions. The greatest display was shown in 58 B. C. when a hippopotamus and five crocodiles were placed together in a specially constructed watercourse. Great numbers 281

of wild beasts were brought to Rome during the following centur­ ies to meet death for the amusement of the people. Probably the greatest slaughter of wild beasts took place after Trajan’s victory over the Dacian’s when eleven thousand animals fought and met their death. Whenever Rome had many criminals or prisoners of war, they would throw the poor wretches into the arena with lions which they had starved for several days. The same was clone with the Christians during the persecutions.

Sea-fights were first displayed by Julius Caesar in a basin dug in the Campus Martins in 46 B. C. These fights later occurred more frequently, but never were as popular as the other games on account of the larj^e amount of work and money that was needed to sponsor them. Possibly the largest event of this kind was held

by Claudius in 52 A. D., for which the basin was large enough to permit each of the opposing fleets to consist of fifty vessels, but no hint is given as to the size of the vessels. Approximately nineteen thousand men took part in this sea-fight and great precaution was taken so that no one could escape. The participants were, as usual, captives or condemned criminals.

Running, leaping, boxing-, wrestling, and discus-throwing were several other games which served to test the nimbleness and strength of lhe young men. Contests in music, oratory, and poe­ try were held in connection with the athletic events. Music did not play an important role in the private life of the Roman, but in public life it was usually present, especially at the games. Seem­ ingly the Romans had little taste for music, because their instru­ ments were all foreign and the music played was un-Roman.

It would l»c difficult to overestimate the importance of the games in Rome, for at one time the Romans spent half of the year at the games and thus had little time to earn a living. Rome had provinces, which she could force to supply the necessaries of life for her idle, pleasure-seeking populace. It was only by means of this external assistance and support that the torpid, voluptuous Ro­ man could long exist and control the Western World.

H. F.,，30.

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DEBATING AND ITS EFFECTS At the outset of our literary societies' present season the officers had planned to introduce and develo]) ：jraniatics and debate in our circles by perhaps alterntiting with plays and debates in the meetings of the societies. In his introductory speech the presi­ dent of the Phi Gamma Rho society outlined the plan arid spoke briefly on the merits of these forms of speaking. The critic on that evening discouraged the idea of introducing debates by setting forth that debate fosters superficiality and hinders origmality and independence of thought and by asserting： that the participants in a debate spend too much time in acquiring the meager l.)enefits and advantages that they receive from their work. The idea of starting debates faded and disappeared, but the societies have ex­ erted themselves in fostering dramatics to the extent that a play has been enacted at every meeting.

We are well aware of the fact that debate as it is carried out in many colleges, where it becomes a game played by teams, like any other competitive sport, is a devitalizing and devastatingly per­ nicious influence. If the debater builds up his arguments and in­ cidentally, however only to a very limited extent, his mind on sta­ tistics taken from almanacs, the “Congressional Record，” or. encyclopedias, and if he is playing to the judges with the sole aim of winning points, debating is no training for life; it is then grossly detrimental and harmful. The critic in our literary society meet283

g surely had this kind of debate in mind when he so harshly criti­ cized and dealt debating in our societies its death-blow, but debate as it would be indulged in under the conditions existing here would be entirely different from the unnatural, pretentious debate of which we have been speaking and would be void of most of the evils of that stilted and overwrought form of debate. Of course much care would have to lie taken in choosing the propositions in order to make the work as beneficial as possible for the partici­ pants.

But why should we totally neglect this “ancient and honorable art”? Debate offers a much needed training in logic and makes men more careful with their syllogisms. It is full of real conviction, sound unrhetorical sense, and manly purpose. In our life the ability to argue logically and intelligently will be requisite and in­ dispensable, altliougli few of use will ever have occasion to apply 011 r ability and adeptness in dramatics. To be able to do this it is advisable and helpful，though not entirely necessary, to know at least the fundamental principles of debate. Debating surely requires much more originality and independence of though than • most of our forms of speaking do. It is true that much of the material is gathered from sources other than the speaker’s own knowledge： and experience, but it is lie who must organize the material and apply much thought in building up a clear and logical argument. Dd\*ite taxes the intellectual resources of the mind and its alertness and ability to formulate its ideas on the spur of the moment. Poeinsi arc often recited mechanically in our literary societies, and our so-called original speeches arc all too encyclopedic. The aim of our debater would be to impress his views up­ on his audience lint to win points, and he would exert himself in an effort to convince. His aim would not be to recite mechanically what he has memorized without any consideration for his audience.

The practice in speaking which debate affords is of the most prac­ tical kind, since it is the purpose and aim of the debater to convince and win, not to amuse and entertain his listeners.

We dare say that the object of many of our speakers is to gather enough material to fill an allotted period of time. This being the case, it is only the exceptional student that takes enough interest in his subject to make a thorough and exhaustive study of it and in that way receive any lasting benefit. The debater, on the other hand, must know his entire field and that of the opponent if he is to speak intelligently on the points which his opponent may raise, and if he is not continuously going to be trapped. The text must be mercilessly analyzed and the defects brought out. The debate is the impact of mind on mind, and there is nothing like} the cross-fire of debate for revealing unsuspected weaknesses or oversights in the examination of the issues. Certainly the kno'vl284

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edge which is necessary to debate well does not come without much application and devotion of time. But after the speaker has dili­ gently worked through his field and thoroughly studied it, very much of the material which he has gathered will have become his own, will be retained, and will be available to him at some future time.

H. THE JOKE COLUMN The column to which a great many readers invariably turn in our “Black and Red,” and which they are quickest to criticize, is “Campus and Classroom.” Difficulties the editor must contend with in writing such an article are many and arc hard to overcome successfully. The caption, with its sketch of hilarious freaks, an­ nounces to the world that the following material is exceptionally humorous. The public is advised of the quality of the article be­ fore having read it. The editor is now confronted with the task of carrying out the promise emblazoned in the heading; if his wit­ ticisms fall short of the prescribed qualit; , he is condemned for his cocksureness in deciding that the article is really funny. Then too, the efficacy of a joke depends on the manner in which it is presented. One can more easily appreciate humor if it is inserted off-hand into any kind of an article, than one can a statement' whose virtue is already labelled. Unless the editor is little short of a genius in this line, he must restrict himself to humorous in­ cidents of dormitory life, and such ifiings can seldom be reproduced with their original value.

The sentiment expressed in the heading “Campus and Classrooni” could easily be embodied in the “Locals” column. An editor could write “Locals” in a humorous vein without necessarily low­ ering the literary plane of that column. Perhaps some would not like to see “Campus and Classroom” taken out of our paper be­ cause of the traditions attached to it, for the column is as old as the “Black and Red” itself. But most other college periodicals have ceased to consider the joke section a necessary adjunct to their college paper; and the writer could do more justice to what­ ever abilities he has in a column where he could take the oflfensive in his writings, than he can in one in which he is continuously being forced to write from a defensive stand.

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and conciliation between the Vatican and the Italian government was signed in the council hall of the Lateran Apostolic palace on February 11. The signing of the pact marks the termination of one of the most important developments in the history of the church and state which has occurred in modern times. Premier Musso­ lini, representing the Italian Fascist government, and Cardinal Gasparri, the papal secretary of state, as plenipotentiary to Pope Pius fixed their signatures to the document, which is composed of three destinct parts with a preamble of twenty-seven articles. The treaty provides for the solution of the historic “Roman question,” which has disturbed the peace in Italy ever since the pope lost his temporal power in 1870. It recognizes the total independence and the absolute domination and jurisdiction of the pope over the city of the Vatican, the boundaries of which have been only slightly in­ creased. The Vatican state will remain “extraneous to temporal competition” unless it is appealed to, and its territory will always be "neutral and inviolable/' The second part of the document is a concordat settling the relations of the church and the Italian state and providing for the state's acceptance of much of the canon law and for a uniformity of civil and canon law in so far that the civil law must in no way disagree with that of the canon. It further provides that religious teachings be granted, not only in the state clemcMitary schools but also in the secondary schools.

The financial convention, which constitutes the third part of the pact, fixes the financial relation of the two contracting parties, the state paying almost a hundred million dollars to the Holy See. According- to the treaty, the Italian government recognizes the right of the Vatican to send ministers and diplomats to foreign countries and to receive those of foreign powers. The Holy See recognizes the Italian government under the sovereignty of the house of Savoy and definitely renounces its claim to the city of Rome and its former papal states, and Italy recognizes the Vati­ can state under the administration of the pope. Historically the event is perhaps the most important that will occur this year and will, without a doubt, go clown in the chapters of history since it restores the independence and temporal sovereignty of the pope, which he apparently hacl permanently lost. The pope will now proceed to apply and carry out the doctrine of the “two swords.”

The agreement must be ratified by Pope Pius XI and Victor Em­ manuel III, king of Italy, within four months after its signature, and it is to go into effect immediately after its ratification.

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—On January 17, Dr. G. C. Hoyer of Appleton, passed away at the age of sixty-nine years. He left Northwestern in the seventies to study music but later entered Rush Medical College, Chicago, and graduated there in 1882. About seven years ago Dr. Hoyer went into retirement after a long practice of medicine in Milwaukee.

—We have been apprised of the death (jf Fritz Ernst, ex ’99, of Oshkosh, third son of the late Dr. A. F, .Ernst.

—On February 9, William Pipkorn, who nttended our Academy in the nineties, died at Sarasota, Florida. He was the eponymous founder and president of the W. II. Pipkorn Co., of Milwaukee.

—Rev. Edmund Sponholz, ex ’25, was installed as _pastor of the St. John’s congregation at Slades Corner on January 20.

—Accompanying _ the two sons of H. Tews of Milwaukee, Rev. A. Bendler, 78, will embark for Palestine in the end of February.

From Palestine they wish to reach Italy and then pass through Switzerland and England. , 一In deep sympathy we record the death of the wife of Rev. Traugott Redlin, '23, at Kingston. She passed away on January 20 when complications set in after an appendicitis operation.

—Rev. Martin Buenger, ’21，was installed as pastor in Caledonia on February 3. He was formerly assistant pastor at Kenosha and on the teaching staff of the Kenosha Lutheran High School. ， —We announce the engagement of Prof. Waldemar Heidtke, ’20, of Fond du Lac, to Miss Angela Ruedebusch of Brownsville, Wisconsin.

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—Prof. Elmer Kiessling,，17, witnessed the dramatic presentation of “》Iacl)eth” in Chicago, on February 9.

—As somewhat belated news we note the marriage of Rev. Wal­ ter Krueger, ’24，of Bison, South Dakota, to Miss Mabel Held of Milwaukee.

—On Wednesday, January 16, Walter Jaeger, ex ’27，of Beaver Dam, was married to Miss Helen Behlend of Oconomowoc. 一Rev. F. Ehlert, cx ’03, of Eitzcn, Minnesota, visited with his sons at Northwestern, J^ljruary seventh and eighth.

—Prof. Carl Ahbetineyer, Ph.D., '88, of Valpariso, has accepted the call as professor to Nortlnvestcrn. He will not, however, begin his work here until the beginning1 of the next school year.

—Rev. Walter Zank, ’16，of Waterloo, Wisconsin, made his ap­ pearance in our library on February 9.

—Sylvan us ElK*rt, ex ’■30，who was lately mentioned in this column, is now radio operator of the university station WSUI at Iowa Citv. 一During the mid semester vacation at Madison, many of our formcr stiulems rested from their university work at least for a time at Nortlnvcsiern: Gerhard Schlueter, ex ’29, Rudolf Timmel, ex ’29, Winfred Tlacntzschel, ex \30, Lester Haentzscliel, ex '32, Waldemar Dasler. ex '32, Herbert Martin, ex ’32.

—Waldemar Zink, *26, Harold Zink, '27, Gerhard Albrecht, ’27, Lee Sal)ro\vsky, J2S. and Roland Hocnecke, ’28, of Milwaukee, and Prof. Erwin Scharf, ’28，of Fond du Lac, witnessed the CarrollNorthwestern game at Watertown, on the evening of February 1.

F atRosenhauer，’28，and Northwestern.

—Geor January .

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Notes Ehe wir eine Silbe Neues schreiben, wollen wir etwas ueber das schon Geschriebene sagen: naemlich dies : Der Bericht vom letzten Monat war wahr. Um die Wahrheit aber uni so kraeftiger fuer uns und unsere Nachkomnien zu machen, haben wir ueber seine 288

Iĺ&#x2022;Ś Glaubwuerdigkeit abgestimmt. Folgender Beschluss wurde angenommen. Vorsclilag: Vorgeschlagen, class der Bericht vom letzten Monat wahr ist. Abstimmung: Dafuer: Alle. Dagegen: Keiner.

Also einstimmig angenommen!

N. B. Damit ist die Sache aus der Welt getan. Nun zur Sache!

Nach 1 anger Unvollkommenheit ist der Coetus nun endlich wieder vollkommen. Keiner vikariert mehr. Unsere drei letzten wieder Vikare, Gieschen, Bittorf, Kuske, von Kewaunee, sind eingelaufen. Es ist alien das Zeugnis augestellt worden, dass sie in der Fremde schwer gearbeitet haben, und beim letzten ist noch die Notiz angefuegt, dass er sich bei der vielen Arbeit auch noch gemaestet habe. Das hat er den ancleren bei den fuer seine zukuenftigen Studien voraus. Hoffentlich bleibt Herr Kuske aber auch vor grossem Heimweh nach der Fremde verschont; denn der Magen vergisst so etwas nicht so leicht.

Es geht jetzt ein gemein Geruecht, class wir bei dieser ungewuenschten Witterung einiger Zeit der AulTorclerung gewaertig zu sein haben, Haus und Hof zu raeumen und nach Thiensville auszufliegen. Mit solch trueben Ahnunge kann sich nieman auf die Laenge tragen, und intensives Studium ist bei solcher Ungewissheit fast unmoeglich. Angesichts dieser grossen Ungewissheit haben wir uns nun unterwunden, unsere Gebieter zu bitten, sie moechten uns doch noch drei Monate Frist geben in Wauwatosa, bis zum Juni. Im schoenen June fliegen auch die Voegel lieber aus als im Februar.â&#x20AC;&#x2022;Wieviel mehr sollten wir nicht ? Wir haben ja selbst nichts zu gebieten, aber man moege uns die Bitte verzeihen.

Neben den paradoxen Dingen im Lcbcn kommen auch manchmal schoene Sachen vor. So ist, Z. B., jetzt unser Studentenchorgesangbuch in ganz neuem Druck erchienen, und was besonders erfreulich ist, ist, dass die Druckarbeit aus unserer eigenen Mitte hervorgegangen ist. Es ist ein Vergnuegen unser neues Buch nur anzuschauen, geschweige denn, die schoenen Lieder darin zu singen.

Frau Musika sollte darum immer groessere Pflege unter uns geniessen. Die Druckarbeit zeugt von aeusserster Sorgfalt und bedarf.unsei.es Lobes garnicht; denn das Werk lobt den Meister, und das ist die sicherste Buergschaft, dass das Werk gelobt zu werden verdient.

Wir sind in diesem Monat besonders dankbar fuer die Gabe solcher Leute wie Rohrke und Lincoln. Lincoln sind wir dankbar, dass durch ihn die armen Schwarzen freigegeben wurden, und Rohrke, dass durch ihn uns ein Pooltable frei gegeben wurde. Un­ ser alter Pooltable war schon so zerfetzt, class etwas getan werden musste. Wie lieblich klang da die Botschaft, class Rohrke uns einen neuen Tisch frei geben koenne; er wisse Mittel und Wege dazu.

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Lincoln seine Idee ausfuehren konnte, mid Rohrkes Idee sich als schreckliche Illusion offenbarte. Nach solcher Taeuschung unci Enttaeuschung war es doppelt schwer, in den eigenen Beutel zu greifen, um den alten Pooltable neu zu ueberziehen.

Notiz: Das folgende ist nur ein Anhaengsel, darin eine Klatscherei vorkommt, die nirgends am Platze ist. Es kam, naemlich, Zll olims Zeiten einmal vor, class einige Stuclenten sich am wundesten Punkte des ganzen Leibes verletzt fuehlten (naemlich am Magen), 'veil die Koechin (lie Kartoffeln verpfeffert habe. Da griffen einige gleich so energisch ein, (lass sie sagten, alle unsere Speisen sollten fortan ohne jeglich Gewuerz bereitet werden, dam it dann jeder nach seinem Belieben Gewuerze darantun koennte. Bei dem Gedanken wollte sich unser Magen aber doch mit vollem Recht umwenden. Dam it man nun nicht Muecken auf einem HectorScheiterhaufen verhrcnne (denn es ist viel besser, man laesst das Muecklein lcbeii, als class man es zu einem Elefanten ausbruetet), war es noetig, einen Oberspeisesmeister einzusetzen. Der soli in Liebe den PfeTfer daempfen und variatio vorschlagn, wenn wir einmalerfuenf in der Woche Bohnen bekommen sollten.

Aller neuste Ncuigkeit: Washingtons Geburtstag ist bei uns abgeschafft als legal holiday und Osterferien gibts auch nicht mehr.

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ton’s birthdays and St. Valentine’s Day. According to the calen­ dar the first peculiarly enough falls on the twenty-second and the third on the fourteenth. We hope we have made that clear. Mr. Washington, as is also well known, was the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army and was that exemplary figure in our history not possessed of that inborn capability, which many of us have of telling lies to advantage, the man whom we always associated in our childhood with Jack and the Beanstalk, because they both are fabled to have cut down something, and whether it be a beanstalk in the one case and a cherry tree in the other concerns us not. Mr. Lincoln, who was born in that fecund year for great men, 1809, needs no comment; every school boy knows that he it was who wrote on a shovel, split rails and freed the negroes. Ac­ cording to Poor Richard it is always advisable to interpolate a wise saw or so, a good moral and the like. And therefore let men take heed to wisdom which Benjamin ranks with that of the Preacher: A stitch in time saves nine: Better slip 'vith the foot than with the tongue. Therefore we shall drop such* topics as the discussions above to avoid any such slips. We quote what the New International Encyclopedia says on St. Valentine's Day, but we shall only refer the reader to that work and let him read for himself. All we beg permission to comment upon is that we pity the poor youths in Chaucer's time, when the names of young men and women were placed in a box, and those whose names were drawn together had to exchange gifts and be each other’s valen­ tine^ throughout the coming year. How many a youth and maiden must have heaved a sigh of relief when the year was past.

On January 17, we had the pleasure to hear Prof. R. C. Blackmun’s lecture, “Other Worlds Than Ours.” Mr. Blackmun is con­ nected with the University of Chicago. The lecturer expressed the growing universal interest for astronomy, the value and importance of some of the latest discoveries and improvements in astronomical research. Important points in the lecture were the explanations of the mysterious surface markings of the moon, the terrific explosions on the surface of the sun, the Saturnian ring system, the various nebulae. The lantern slides accompanying the study consisted of a special selection of the latest and best photo­ graphs obtainable at the Yerkes Oliservatory, Lake Geneva, and at the Mount Wilson Observatory at Pasadena, California.

Our literary societies have not been inactive in the past month.

Up until the time this column went to press there were three fairly interesting programs, two by the Philomathean and one by the Phi Gamma Rho Society. Hugo List and Herbert Von Haden were masters of ceremonies of the first and second respectively, and K. Kneiske of the last. The program of January 18 was opened by the college orchestra. A second musical number was given by 291

、Theodore Otto at the piano. Poetical recitations by Henry Bau­ mann and Victor Schultz and the dramatic presentation, a one act play entitled, “Napoleon’s Barber,” completed the program. Cos­ tumes and scenes were characteristic of the revolutionary period.

The plot in short is this: A braggart barber swears that if he ever should have the opportunity to shave Napoleon that the razor should cut deeper than the epidermis. Unknowingly, he has the opportunity desired, but when after his poor work Napoleon dis­ closes his identity by conferring the badge of the legion upon the barber’s son and orders the barber to improve his work by a repeti­ tion of the shave that worthy breaks down and fawningly begs for mercy, which is granted. The cast: ____ Oscar Hammen Napoleon … … _____ Alvin Leerssen Barber ........ ______ .Janette Glaus Barbers Wife ......Donald Schwartz Barber's Son The second Philomathean program, on February 2, gav.e us a very pleasant dramatic piece by Mr. Franzmann. The one-act play is entitled ’’The Chimney and the Moon，” and its subject is the shrewd use an ambitious girl made of her boy-cousin to get the reluctant young plutocrat she loved, to marry her. The part of the shrewd young girl was well taken by Miss Alice Dierker. Miss Leona Pricni acted as Mary’s mother. The young American plutocrat, Vincent James, was Roy Stuhr and the very obliging cousin, Jimmy Throckcr, was Kenneth Vertz.

The musical numbers were rendered by Harold Warnke on the clarinet and by tlie male chorus. Talks were given by W. Wichmann and Will)ur Goetz, a reading by Henry Meyer, and a good poetic recitation by Lester Bruns.

From the speeches of Messrs. Ham men Vinci Fleischer on the Phi Gamma Rho program of February 9, we gained some interest­ ing data on Socialism and on Turkey’s adoption of the Latin alphabet. How willing- the world is to laugh was shown when the “German Band” under the direction of H. Oswald alternately snorted or whined off its brass notes between bites of pork sausage and sauerkraut.

A poetical recitation, “The Vagabonds，’’ and Mac Dowell’s pretty **Hungarian Etude” played by E. Groth at the piano completed the first five numbers. The sixth was a one act play, “A Night at an Inn,” by Lord Dunsany. For the first time in the year we are presented with the uncanny. The play reminded us of stories like “Dr. Fumancher,” “The Yellow Claw,” etc., and sent icy shivers clown our spinal vertebrae. Its scene was a deserted English country tavern; its characters rough English sailors, ad­ venturers and Oriental idol pilferers; the apple of discord a stolen idol’s eye. Through it skulk Mongol priests with knives in their 292

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It is surprising and disappointing- how few school papers there are that could be used as examples of what a college journal or magazine should be. Practically all lack the proper balance; one department is over-emphasized, another neglected, a third ignored.

Practically all have an oversupply of athletic topics and a sad dearth of articles, editorials, and topics of universal or inter- and extra-collegiate interest. Again, practically all arc too trivially local in character. Who cares to read that so and so spent the week-end at Hereandthere or has the measles some time after the event has ceased to be news. Often much of the literary work ap­ pearing in the issues gives the impression of being mere “spacefiller” instead of the cream of the author’s efforts. Many papers have a department labelled “Student Opinion,M or “Open Forum” or the like, in which discussions, letters, opinions, and ideas on col­ 293

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lege conditions are aired by the students. More papers ought to introduce columns of this kind. Among other things they tend to show that there is really serious thought and enthusiasm under the partially assumed crust of cynical indifference and amusement with which the college men are supposed to view life. :

The “Tuskegee Messenger” of Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, has as its object to chronicle the progress of the negro. This it does, but it can in no 'vay be called a college journal. That vague, indistinguishable tang- of a college paper is definitely missing.

Here none of the bubbly, humorous, rushing, yelling-, tumultuous “College”一with very black quotation marks一 spirit is in evidence.

This magazine is rather a serious journal of an earnest movement.

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A demand common to all colleges is the one for more and bet­ ter college songs. Augustana College plans to fulfill this demand by conducting a pep song contest. The composer of the best song is to receive twenty-five dollars. Both the words and the music of the song must be original.

When speaking of “fair play one invariably means the golden rule, “(lo unto others as you would have others do unto you.” This is the keynote of democracy. The companions of fair play are honesty and unselfishness. In the school the promotion of this principle leads to honest work in the classroom, fairness in sports, and consideration of one’s fellowmen. (一including the professors!)

—Luther College Visitor.

One admirable college reform that is making considerable headway this winter is optional class attendance. Over a dozen colleges have granted it to favored groups since the college year opened.

Appalling- as is the amount of time wasted by unessential or unorganized reading, there are few real attempts in college to help the student find an ordered plan in the mighty maze of literature.

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—by New Student.

feated by the “Gold Coasters” at Lake Forest. In the first half Lake Forest had a decided edge over their opponents, The last half, however, turned into an evenly matched and hard-fought game, with Northwestern constantly threatening to- overcome the 295

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Northwestern 24; Ripon 23 Tlie“Reclnicn’’ oil the nineteenth of January, contrary to all expectations, suffered defeat at the hand of Coach Kleinke’s squad.

It is true, they had to dispense with the services of Halverson, their star forward, hut this victory over one of the strongest state and mid-west college teams is a big boost for our team and coach.

In the opening minutes of the game Ripon scored several field goals, taking an early lead. It took Northwestern some time to find itself and function smoothly. A field goal made by North­ western shortly before the half ended tied the score. Starting the last half on even terms with our opponents, the varsity early took and constantly maintained a lead. With but two minutes left to play, however, Ripon taking a chance shot from the middle ofjthe floor, scored to bring them to within one point of our score. The tenseness of these closing moments might well have roused the blood of the most disinterested and apathetic of spectators. To conclude it was an excellent game in all phases excepting that some of Northwestern’s supporters thought that they were aiding the players, probably giving them their 'moral support by “razzing” the referee. The players do not concur in this opinion, and sports­ manship demands that it cease.

F.G. F.T. P.F. Northwestern— F.G. F.T. P.F. Ripon— 2 1 1 Martin, r. f.------- 2 1 1 Stuhr, r. f...

3 2 1 Jaspers, 1. f.— .0 0 Harke, 1. f...

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Kettenacker, r. g. 2 1 0 2 3 Williams, 1. g.

0 Blumenthal, 1. g. 2 _ ---- 2 Referee: Holmes. Substitutions: for Northwestern, Witt for Stuhr, Rutz for Harke, Schwerin for Rutz, Raasch for Kettenacker.

For Ripon, Mantin for Sparr, Reehl for Jaspers, ICussmann for Reehl.

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Concordia 29; Northwestern 17 After a harrowing week of mental strain and extreme nervous tension, the usual concomitants of final exams, and short hours of sleep, which almost inperceptibly tend to sap the body of all physi­ cal vitality and lower the bodily tone in general, together with a complete neglect of basketball practice the Northwestern team on the twenty-sixth of January suffered an ignominious defeat at the hands of the enthusiastic Concordia squad. Concordia entered the contest with all due humility and that respect which a long string of previous defeats is bound to engender but with a deter­ mination almost equal to Milton^ “Satan.” In short our oppon­ ents were all keyed up for the fight; our players were probably more intent upon which show they should take in after the vic­ tory.

The game can be described in a few strokes. Concordia immediately took an eleven point lead and never lost it. Our men regarded this first spurt with an indulgent attitude and paternal smile, feeling sure that the youngsters couldn't keep up the pace.

At the half the disillusionment had become as complete as it was uncomfortable. Northwestern never once showed the teamwork, fight, and accuracy in shooting- of previous games.

We never saw more enthusiasm, and enthusiasm all the more refreshing in that it reminded one of his unspoiled childhood days, when that sophisticated coolness and cynical indifference of the modern collegian was not yet ours, than among these Concordia students. Their cheering was irreproachable and we were assured that they hold their “pep meetings” every day, a practice certainly conducive to victory, if victory be attainable through such extraneous means. Such a consummate “college spirit” would be unaccountable if we kne'v not that this is the only outlet afforded their animal spirits. One thing struck us as typical though, that when the cheer leaders called for a “rah! rah! for Concordia!” the response was loud, full, and spontaneous, whereas when in the middle of the second half, when no one had any misgivings as to the outcome of the game, the cheerleaders, thinking, no doubt, that it would be the proper thing to give the opponents a cheer by way of encouragement and consolation for their loss, called for a cheer for Northwestern, the reply was but a weak and half hearted attempt more in the form of an interrogative, of the questions, what’s it all about? to what purpose? cui bono?

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The very elements are allied against us. The heavy snowfall this winter was a material factor in inflicting the severest reverse on us that Northwestern ever experienced. The same Ripon squad, which Coach Kleinke’s team defeated but a short time ago chalked up an enormous score to our discredit at Ripon, on the thirtieth of January.

The squad left Watertown at two o’clock and, after pushing the car in which they rode for several miles, making several de­ tours, and running to keep up with the car whenever it advanced ■ virtue of its own power arrived at Ripon at 8.45, By nine lock they were in suit and thus cold, cramped, benumbed, and hungry, having nothing to eat since one o’clock they put up a hopeless fight. The first half was fairly even, but in the last half the “Redmen” simply swamped our exhausted team. .F

Referee: Engelbrecht. Substitutions: for Northwestern, Krue­ ger for Witt, Schwerin for Krueger, Heyn for Pless, Rutz for Heyn, Raasch for Kettenacker. For Ripon, Kussmann for Jaspers, Reehl for Kussmann, Martin for Sparr, Martin D. for Williams.

Carroll 40; Northwestern 12 On February the first, Carroll inflicted an overwhelming de­ feat on Northwestern in our own gymnasium. Our team seemingly in a horrible slump was outplayed in every phase of the game. To mention details were tiresome. Let us merely look once at the score and pass on.

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Milwaukee Normal 28; Northwestern 19 On February the fourth, Northwestern was again overcome by the Milwaukee Teacher’s College team. The normalites clearly outplayed Northwestern in the first half. The varsity seemed to lack fight and couldn’t find the loop. They missed nine out of ten shots. The second half was more to our favor and a final spurt in the closing minutes gave us most of our points.

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The Juniors and Seniors are again taking Greek, and many are wondering where all those Greek forms which they formerly knew have gone.

It is said that after the trip that the basketball team made to Ripon, Manager Gerald Martin ordered skis and snow shovels for the team, so that future trips might more easily be made.

Mr. Kuhn recently traveled to Milwaukee to replenish his wardrobe. His act is looked upon as the first sign of spring.

Not long ago Trapp missed his gray band coat and gilt derby.

The disappearance of the two articles caused him some worry.

The custom of receiving1 a treat from the two persons in each room who won high and low marks on the reports was again held this }Tear. And so we learn that Room 27 was treated to minced chicken on toast “in typically oriental fashion” on February second.

Sydow attended the silver wedding anniversary of his uncle in Milwaukee on February ninth.

Sippcrt celebrated his birthday, January seventeenth, by giv­ ing the Sophomores a meal.

As society news we offer the following: Phillip and Alfred Sauer cMitertained at a banquet given in honor of twelve Seniors.

(The term "society news” is Mr. Eberhard’s.)

Reich, Stuhr, and the Paustian brothers spent February ninth and tenth with friends at Juneau. In their own words they “had a good time eating and sleeping.” On the way back they nearly froze their feet when their car was stalled in the snow drifts.

Jim Schaefer went to Milwaukee after the examinations to have several teeth removed. He remained at his home in Iron Ridge until January twenty-ninth. Mr. Grant Moltman, better known as “Fat,” also returned from his home in Savannah several days after the beginning of the second semester. But what the cause of his late returi) was, we were unable to learn. There was some talk about his being stuck in the snow at Milton, Wisconsin, but the information is not definite.

William Sachs visited his former classmate, Zip Hess, in Alienton, on February second and third.

We beg leave to inform a probably skeptical public that in these last days the world is going to the dogs. Proof of the asser­ tion rests in the fact that H. Geiger went out on the evening of February tenth. That was the first time he did such a thing this year. When such men as * Hah” forsake the ranks of the “buckers，’’ surely there is something wrong deep in the roots of the whole Stoic system.

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They took an old sleigh which they found behind the refectory somewhere, and since, as is said, the rigorous winter caused the death of the college horse, hitched themselves to the conveyance and had a merry time all afternoon.

A group of musicians under the direction of John Meyer entertained at a Walther League rally in Fort Atkinson, Sunday, Jan­ uary twenty-seventh. The program, which furnished the music for the occasion, consisted of several vocal and instrumental num­ bers. From indications it is evident that the boys did well, en­ joying the trip and pleasing their audience.

Since this is the Junior number, a few words ought to be said about the Juniors. They now have as a member of their body Mr. Siegfried “Skeex” Fenske, at one time president of the class of 1928 and erstwhile member of the class of 1929. “Skeex” was forced by sickness at two different times to interrupt his studies, and he is now attempting to absorb more light from the lamp of learning.

Then there is Mr. Reinhold “Frex” Roth, who on February sixth contracted what is affectionately known as a “Charley Horse.”

It seems “Frex” was engaged in a basketball game with the bone crushing department of the Senior class ancl one of the mill stones rolled over him.

Mr. Erich Arnold Schultz, North Milwaukee, Wisconsin, also known as Hie, Cortez, and Baron von Schallitz, dare not be omitted from this little diatribe. Mr. Schultz recently celebrated his twen­ ty-first birthday and the Junior boys helped him. And after be­ ing spanked, he came right back at the boys and gave them a party.

This is how it happened: On the evening of February eighth, Hie said in the Junior class meeting that he had a large amount of food on hand that he couldn’t eat alone, and that lie should like to have the Juniors help him dispose of it. Now a Junior is always able to do such a favor, for their appetites are all like Kettenacker^s, which is famous. Arrangements were made to have the feast in Koehler’s room on third floor at any time between twelve in the evening and six in the morning. And so the plans were completed.

After a slight but unavoidable delay, the party began at twelvefifteen. Roth’s room was made the banquet hall, because the boys did not feel like going down to the end of the hall to Koehler’s room. Berg^feld’s room, although more luxuriously furnished than RotlVs and Koehler’s, was declared ineligible because of the prevailing low temperature there. The boys were there in full force with the exception of Harold Schulz, who had to sleep, so that he could keep up the reputation of the Hebrew class the next day, and Marcus Fleischer, who by some regrettable error was not notified of the post-midnight carousal. And then came the “eats.” Roth, 301

the landlord, acted as chief cook, and how “Frex” did fry! And then came the cake and ice cream and jellow. After the twenty banqueters had eaten all they could, they settled down to a social half hour. Fenske busied himself with kidding the goldfish that inhabits Room 48, and Mr. Bruns hauled out that pipe he smokes on state occasions. The degree E. E. (Epicureamis Emeritus) was conferred upon Mr. Schultz, host of the evening, and upon Mr. Struck and Mr. Iileichwehl, the two comedians from Manitowoc, who succeeded—almost一in terrifying Koehler by their exhibition of futuristic or modern or antique or whatever that kind of dancing is called. Then the boys went to bed at one forty-five and the next clay they worked off the effects of the nocturnal banquet by trimming the Sophs at basketball.......... might go on talking about the Juniors, but ................And the editor has restricted this column to seven pages, and who can do justice to the merits of that l)ody in seven pages.

Since the Christmas program of the Vesuvius Club could not be given on account of the early Christmas recess, the program was worked over and given as a Valentine party on February twelfth. The members spent a genial and cozy evening in the club rooms. The comedies that were acted called forth a good laugh from every one present. Nante Strumpf, a German playlet, was especially well taken. When the committee began to hand out valentines, llic parly became somewhat boisterous. Although the valentines were bdcnv par in respects, the wit expressed in them and the aptness with which the committee selected those who were supposed to liave sent the valentines approached genius. The whole program was novel and original.

QI0-1E& Notes.

The “preps seem to have been unusually active in regard to outside interests. Perhaps this is the reaction to the strenuous ex­ aminations of last month. At any rate, they have found time to interfuse a liUle'“play” in their studious lives.

Glenna Rasmussen and seven other members of the prepara­ tory department, enjoyed a week-end house party at the Rasmussen home. The guests were: Dorothy Groth, Betty Jaeger, Julia Knispel, Ruth Mayer, Hertha Notbohm, Helen Prentiss, and Ger­ trude Wend land. They experienced all the joys and discomforts which are the results of the frigid winter of this year. To be explicit, they reported that the thermometer registered 28 degrees below zero. This afforded them ample opportunity to engage in 302

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The lavish supply of snow also encouraged ten members of this group to have a sleigh ride party.

Betty Jaeger, Ruth Mayer, and Glenna Rasmussen, representa­ tives of the feminine athletes, attended the Ice Carnival at Oconomowoc.

Betty Jaeger celebrated her birthday recently. She complained that the violent congratulations were too numerous to endure with composure.

At different times, we have been loath to announce that a member has discontinued her studies. Instead of a decrease in the number of girls enrolled, there is a tendency toward fluctuation.

Lavern Zorr who is the latest newcomer, has re-established our equilibrium.

Margaret Schmeling entertained former classmates by giving a dinner party. Those who were present were: Margaret Mutchler of Milwaukee, Irene Ihcle, Clara Bretzmann, Gertrude Fleischer, and Frieda Voges.

Since the beginning of the second semester, gymnasium classes for the girls have been organized. The girls now may show their proficiency in this field on Tuesday and Friday afternoons. As yet, there has been a meager attendance.

The Co-eds received a highly interesting letter from Marie Taras. We are very glad to hear that Marie is enjoying her work as teacher.

Stand by! This is the Junior miniber. If it weren’t for the good <old class of ’30, there wouldn’t be any Junior class this year, Allow us to make our debut: 303

Bergfeld: (Lapis, Fred) Chicago gunman and beer-runner and far-famed authority on slicing.

Bleichwehl: (Louie, Cop-Schlitz) Excellent policeman and right hand man to our class-president. Why do they still kid him about Schlitz?

Bruns : (no remarks) Literary critic and musician.

Eckert: (Zip) Authority on the opposite sex and organizer of fake sleigh-ride parties.

Fleischer : (Epi) Did you buck your so-and-so for today?

Fritze: (Hooks) Minnesota prairie-wolf.

Gatz: (Gcgatz) Known for his flat jokes and his excellent act­ ing. (Don’t take it to heart, Arny) Ach ja!

Hellmann: (Addie) lie reads Dahn and Tolstoy and keeps the boys in order.

Kettenackcr: (Ruben, Steer) He likes apples and logic.

Koehler: (Eek) General literary man and critic of everything that smacks of Babbit.

Meyer: (Hans) Far-famed composer and authority on music.

Pape : (Hermes) I smoke Lucky Strikes.

Pless : (Lush, Plass) Busy with sinking baskets and pivoting.

Roth: (Frex) Marathon sleeper and official taster of Camel cigarettes. N. B. Frex is gaining in the Marathon.

Ristow: (Tau) Prospective theatre-manager, literary critic and stoic.

Schulz : (Lath) The man who made the photography business hum.

Schliesser: (Paul, Mike) The walking guide-book of the Rhine country.

Wichniann : (Wow, Waf) He takes pleasure in making life miserable for Epi. A much sought-after referee in Watertown’s suburbs.

Sandy (Bringing suit to Lapis) : “Here, I’m bringing you big business. I don’t want the vest pressed and—by the way―how much off if you press the suit only on one side?”

Lapis: “But why only on one side?”

Sandy: “'Veil, I’m going to have a profile picture taken.”

Wichmann: “What is a myth?”

Doc (Ex-Junior) : “A female moth.

Schoeneck: “What’s a hexameter?”

Engel:' uSix feet.”

Schoeneck: “Well, if a hexameter is six feet, wliat’s a dia­ meter ?

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[^:Belt Colored Lady (coming in to Penney’s) : "Tse cravin’ fo’ a cent’s worth ob insect powder/* Frex: “But that isn’t enough to wrap up.”

Colored Lady: “Who said, wrap it up? Jest blow it down mah back.

Soap box orator: “Now would anybody like to ask a question?”

Steer: “How much for the box you’re standing on? We need new waste-basket.” 氺

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Fritze: “You are the sunshine of my life. You alone reign in my heart. Without you, life is but a dreary cloud.”

A former co-ed: “Say, is this a proposal or a weather report?” 氺 氺 氺 Schulz: “I’ni a self-made man.”

Tau: “You surely made a mistake by not consulting an ex­ pert.3 Conductor: “Where to?”

Meyer (trying to pull a fast one) : “Hydropolis.”

Conductor: “You’re on the wrong car, we're running only to Waukesha and Waterto'vn.”

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Wickner’s Boot Shop The Home of Those Better Fitting Shoes X-Ray Fitting WATERTOWN, WIS. •«-

Photograph Appeal When ordinary pictures fail Make your appointment now

MEYER，S STUDIO 112 Third Street

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Apply for particulars to the home office or to a local representative.

Loeffler & Benke Floral Shop 10 Main St.

Phone 649

We Recommend

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Leo Ruesch & Son 210 West Main Street

People’s Fruit Market 407 MAIN ST. Headquarters for Fresh Fruits and Vegetables of All Kinds.

We deliver-Give us a trial.

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Supply your tennis footwear at SPCOHN’S. Large variety at moderate prices.

Prompt repair service

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Dr, J. R. Casanova DENTIST

CHAS. HEISMANN

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107 N. First St.

Tel. 714-J Res.504-W

Opposite from City Hall

Men’s Department Pretty soon, you’ll be thinking seriously of getting your new Spring suit or topcoat. We will be pleased to show you the new fabrics and models.

LUMBER COAL COKE All Kinds of Building Material

Phone 37

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Hartig’s Quality

ICE CREAM

Dr. E. J. Hoermann DENTIST X-Ray

Telephone No. 258

Corner First and Main Streets

Watertown, Wis.

FIRST CLASS WORK at “CAREFUL DRY CLEANERS' Office & Plant, 412 Main Street

SIM BLOCK “THE

BARBER”

PHONE 263-J

205 Third St.

Watertown

Headquarters for

BELLEMONT HATS AND CAPS

Grube - Greinert Comoany 302 Main Street

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JAS. D. CASEY COMPANY PIANOS, PHONOGRAPHS and RADIOS on Easy Payment Plan RECORDS—ROLLS 119-121 Water St.

Watertown, Wis.

THEY’RE HERE! The last word in Spring Styles. The two button coat, Tatersoll vest and pleated pants.

All the noliby patterns in oxford gray, blues, tans and shadow stripes.

TROYER TAILORING CO, The Merchant Tailors Phone 1140-W

11 Main

D. and F. KUSEL CO. “The Store of Quality” offers you only the best in POCKET CUTLERY—RAZORS GOLDSMITH ATHLETIC GOODS

Our photographs express that touch of personality that you ad­ mire in photographs.

The Denninger Studio PHONE 263-W

115 NORTH FOXJKTH ST.

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And the prices are “Young,” too. Just the sort that comfort­ ably fit the means of young fellows. Fall suits and overcoats at

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Telephone 33-1R

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INSTRUCTOR Pipe Organ Piano, Violin and

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DOERR DRUGS E. CHAS. DOERR, Prop.

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F. C. KECK & COMPANY

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QUALITY BAKE SHOP Pastries of All Kinds Try Our Home-Made Candies Phone 737-W

104 Main St.

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Livery 41

I Northwestern Delicatessen

Excellent Food at Moderate Prices

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Always Open

Phone 138-W

Wc have the hunch for your light lunch

107 W. Main St.

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Salick’s Jeweler

601 Main St.

Our thorough cleaning will give your scarfs, ties, caps, and hats new beauty.

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WE DO REPAIRING and ALTERATIONS THAT PLEASE

Tietz Cleaners & Dyers Phone 620-J

110 Second St.

YOUNG，S THE HOME OF GOOD SAUSAGE

Phone 197

Marble Barber Shop

Watertown, Wis.

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101 First Street

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WM. SCHUBERT, Prop.

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QUIET OPERATION

An Automatic Oil Burner

F- J. Koser BAKER

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111 Second Street

MAIN CAFE The home of

CHOICE FOOD Home cooking and quality service.

Open day and night.

Watertown, Wis.

Tel. 288-J

103 Main Street

A. KRAMP COMPANY The Largest Garage in the city.

Reo Speedwagons

Nash Cars Have you tried our delicious sandwiches ?

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Hamburgers

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Co_ Athletic Supply Co. -FINEBASKETBALL

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Milwaukee, Wis.

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KEHR BROS. 211 No, 3rd St.

Watertown, Wis.

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Office Phone 156-W

Watertown, Wis.

215 Main St.

SUITS and OVERCOATS

$22

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Hoffmann-Kelly Co. FLOWERS for EVERY PURPOSE from Stuebe Floral Co. We telegraph flowers anywhere Phone 464

406 Main St.

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Watertown. Wis.

Shoes Repaired while you wait

CROCKERY STORE

A. SOHRWEIDE

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W. D. Sproesser Co. JEWELERS Pianos and Victor Victrolas

Kohls-Hafemeister Co. Furniture—Funeral Service Edison Phonographs and Records OUR SERVICE SATISFIES

111 Main St

Phone No. 259-J

SERVICE

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W. E.Volkmann,Prop.

607 Main St.

Phone 150W

WIGGENHORN JEWELRY COMPANY Diamonds—W atches Watertown 13 Main St.

215 N. Fourth Street

Dr.T.C.H- Abelmann CARL H. OTTO Dealer in Groceries, Feed and Flour, Vegetables and Fruits in season. Telephone 597-J. Watertown, Wis. Ill N. 4th St

United Cigar Store For Cigars, Cigarettes and Tobaccos Also Magazines and Daily Papers 9 MAIN STREET

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Purity Bread There is no substitute for Quality STUPKA，S BAKE SHOP 618 Main Street

JULIUS BAYER Wholesale and Retail Dealer in MEATS AND SAUSAGES OF ALL KINDS Watertown

Phone 25 105 Main Street

Phone 431-J

The Princess Confectionery

Wisconsin

Next to Theatre

Phone 680-J

Classic Sweet Shop H. C. Brandt, Prop.

George Spyros, Proprietor

Agency for ICE CREAM, CANDIES AND CIGARS

WHITMANS CHOCOLATES Ice Cream

Watertown, Wis.

Candies

Cigars

Drs. A. & M. Schlueter DENTISTS 313 Main Street

BEHLKE DRUG CO.

Watertown, Wis.

BUTTERCUP BRAND OF BUTTER Made By

Corner First and Main Streets

Watertown Butter & Cream Co.

Watertown, Wis.

Manufacturers and Dealers in Butter and Cheese

CITY AUTO SERVICE COsales OAKLAND-PONTIAC service Storage

WE REPAIR ALL MAKES OF CARS Phone 264-W 200 First Street

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Bank of Watertown Watertown, Wisconsin Capital, Surplus and Profits

$630,000 SEAGER & BRAND

E. H. COOK, M. D. Practice Limited to

UP-TO-DATE BARBER SHOP 11 Main St.

Phone 1140-J

Watertown, Wis.

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Senior Humber March 1929 NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE Watertown, Wisconsin

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LITERARY— To the Class of ’29 (Poem)-------308 MacPherson^ Ossian

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**Joseph and his Brethren”------

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The Unusual-----------------------

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Bluecher ein beborener Soldat----- 316 The New Ulm Massacre------------ .319 The Value of the Classics---------- 322 What Price Education at Northwestern ?_________________ .324

EDITORIALS— Vale!___________________

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Samson among the Philistines

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Spring Football----------------

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The Charm of Novels______

.330

Respice Finem ___________

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ALUMNI___________

.332

SEMINARY NOTES ...

COLLEGE NOTES —

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EXCHANGE ________

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ATHLETICS________

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LOCALS -------------------

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CO-ED NOTES______

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CAMPUS AND CLASSROOM_____ 347

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THE BLACK AND RED Volume XXXII.

Watertown, Wis., March, 1929

Number 10

Entered at the Postoffice at Watertown. Wis.. as second class matter under Act of March 3, 1879. Published monthly. Subscription, One Dollar.

TO THE CLASS OF *29 When, in the future, Time shall take his due, And I am idly passing days most drear, Perhaps at dreaming of a day or year Of time past spent at fair Northwestern true, Not even lightly thinking why, or who Should with me pass in friendship future days, Who should help guide me on the diverse ways Of life, we all sho ulcl soon of need pass through— Then shall I with most earnest wishes true And memories fond and deep desires vain Think gently back on those old friends of mine.

My erstwhile classmates, one and all of you, And wish to pass a day just once again Of pleasure with the Class of Twenty Nine.

W. H. G.，’29.

MACPHERSON’S OSSIAN Undoubtedly no single piece of literary work contributed as much towards precipitating the Romantic Movement in European literature, especially in German literature, as did MacPherson’s poems of Ossian. In the course of years most of their popularity has worn off, but a certain intrinsic value does not permit them entirely to sink into oblivion. Rather they have been assigned to their proper place in English literature.

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The poems of Ossian already awaken some interest through the notorious circumstances of their composition. In 1760 James MacPherson showed several of his literary friends a number of Gaelic fragments together with his own translation. He was a well-educated Scotch schoolmaster of about twenty-four years, who in his recent university studies had manifested an ambitious interest in poetry. The warm interest of his friends led him to pub­ lish the translations. Now the dawn of the romantic period was slowly approaching. The work of many transitional poets was greatly leaning towards the later romantic ideals. Literary at the time were beginning to collect ancient ballads and folk songs, and considerable interest in philological studies prevailed. Due to these circumstances MacPherson was ardently encouraged by the savants of Edinburgh to search for more manuscripts of similar or, if possible, of even greater value. Accordingly he made a jour­ ney to the Highlands and Scottish Islands. Those who had helped to raise a subscription for him soon thought that their scholarly patronage had brought rich fruits. For in the course of the next three years MacPherson published his entire Ossianic poems, which he alleged to be his prose translations of the works of a third cen­ tury Celtic poet, Ossian. The collection comprised two longer epics, "Fingal” and “Temora，” and some twenty shorter poems.

Ossian, the blind old bard and warrior, who is versed in all the wisdom of the exterminated Druids, reflects on the clays of his strength and sings of the valiant deeds and great heroes that marked them. His people by way of occupation are still hunters.

War, however occupies most of the heroe's times. They have as yet no fortified cities and the armies are comparatively small. The poems are written in short rythmical sentences which could well be printed in irregular verse form. The language is very concise, the thoughts all abstract. The poems are full of natural beauty and imagery and breathe the melancholic tones which are found in all Nordic literature. The poems truly conformed with what could be expected from the old Celtic inhabitants of Scotland and Ireland. Hence they created a great stir in England. On the continent they were for many years hailed as the most excellent specimen of folk song and were translated in seven different lan­ guages. Klopstock, Herder, and Goethe praised them highly.

Napoleon later read his Ossian assiduously. The poems for a time seemed capable of fascinating the poet, the historian, the philolo­ gist, the lover of romance and the reader of great sensibility alike.

In England some, however, immediately impugned their genuineness as translations and a long literary controversy arose. Dr. Johnson, that literary dictator of the day, championed the oppo­ sition with his crisp and scathing pen. The poet Gray and the Scotch critic Dr. Blair were the ablest defendants of MacPherson.

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A1 though the quarrel came to no decision, MacPherson's unwillingness to produce the Gaelic manuscripts put him in a bad light.

Modern study has shown that Johnson was quite right in calling them ingenious philological and historical fraud. Not that the whole of Ossian arose from MacPhersons mind. He was born in lhe picturesque Highland country of Inverness, the son of a small farmer. During his youth lie lived in a country where rugged mountains, wild glens and sublime lakes all bore names that led hack to a far distant day. From the mouth of the people he heard the corresponding legends, not only as freely told stories, but often in the form of long Gaelic poems. Himself of poetic nature MacPherson was thus able t(3 catch the spirit of the clays of old. Undoubted ly he even had some fragmentary manuscripts. If he had been more of a philologist at heart he might have been satisfied in editing the fragments with his translations. But he really did not rate them highly. He rather saw in these Gaelic themes excellent material to weld into epics and clothe in his own romantic prose style. He brought heroes from different cycles together and added anecdotes from various sources ,all of which was quite legitimate.

But not being- ovcrscrupulous he then chose to make his poems popular by calling them translations.

His young contemporary Chatlerton engaged in a similar fraud with his Rowley poems.卞he shame and neglect following dis­ covery, however, induced Chalterton to commit suicide. MacPherson, on the other hand, gained riches and a seat in parliament. But the Furies employed a more sulnle and ironical method of punishing his deception. After MacPherson was probably tired of the whole affair and wished only peacefully to enjoy his competence, he was compelled to laboriously produce a Gaelic original. He might have been willing to disclaim the honor of discovering valu­ able manuscripts and receive credit for what he had produced and could well stand for itself, a romantic treatment of Gaelic themes.

Yet he could not expose the many friends who had aided him and were earnestly defending the genuineness of Ossian. At first he maintained that editing the manuscripts involved great expense; but his enemies still clamored for the originals. Finally he set about producing a patchwork, the bulk of which was a Gaelic trans­ lation of his own prose, some, however, indeed from actual manu­ scripts. Yet it was still incomplete at his death in 1796. At his own request and expense MacPherson was buried in the poet’s cor­ ner of Westminster Abbey.

It is not sufficient to call James MacPherson an imposter, for he must needs be recognized as one of the greater Scotch writers.

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Since the style, subject matter, and the characters are quite similar in all of the Ossianic poems, it will suffice to briefly treat one of the epics, “Fingal.” Here, as in all of the poems, Fingal, the father of Ossian, is the hero. The unstated proposition of this epic of six books is Fingal’s deliverance of Ireland from the inva­ sion of Swaran, king of Lochlin. There is no formal invocation, but the frequently inserted addresses to Galvina, the spouse of Ossian’s son Oscar, serve a similar purpose. As the epic opens, Cuthullin, who is regent of Ireland in the minority of Cormac, re­ ceives news that Swaran’s hostile sails are drawing near. We hear that help has been asked of Fingal, the invincible king of kindred Scotland. But since he has not yet arrived, Cuthullin in his council of chiefs finally accepts Comial’s advice of attack. The battle which ensues is magnificently described, As roll a thousand waves to the rocks so Swaran’s host came on; as meets a rock a thousand waves so Erin met S'varan of Spears.” Night leaves the battle un­ decided. We have met with many heroes, all of whom are brave but all in a different way, some rash, some circumspect, some cun­ ning. But the way in which these brave men concede the superi­ ority of Fingal is a fine method of preparing us for a great hero.

During the night the ghost of one of the fallen heroes appears to Connal in warning of defeat. The appearance is an example of some of the fine description abounding in the epic. Connal saw a bloodred stream rushing down from heaven upon which Crugal sat. "His face is like a beam of the setting moon, his robes are of the clouds of the hill. The stars dim-twinkled through his form.

His voice was like the sound of a distant stream.”

Cuthullin and his men, however, did not flee; but after some obstinate fighting the Irish army was finally forced to give way.

Cuthullin and Connal prepare to cover up the retreat alone when the succoring ships of Fingal arrive. Swaran turns to the sea and Cuthullin, who does not wish to appear before Fingal defeated, retreats into a cave. Although Ossian’s son Oscar already takes part in battle, fired with impatient enthusiasm for glory, Fingal*s strength is still undiminished. Fingal is, however, not only an un­ conquerable warrior but also a wise ruler in time of peace, and a father full of affection for his children. In the final battle he first desists from the combat to let the younger warriors gain great fame. Seeing that one part of his army is forced to retreat he first sends his bard there to fire their spirits. But when Swaran still prevails, he descends himself. Thereupon Swaran is finally cap­ tured and his army defeated. Fingal is, however, a merciful vic­ tor who wishes to make a friend of a vanquished foe. Besides, Swaran is the brother of Agandecca, Fingal’s illfated first love.

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The epic is not, however, merely a continuous exhibit of war.

The songs of the bards repeatedly introduce tenderer scenes, stor­ ies of friendship and love, but preferably with a tragic ending.

Since the bards were wont to entertain the Celtic heroes in war as well as in peace the anecdotes in no way seem forcibly introduced.

Moreover all of these episodes have some bearing on the main action. The bard early acquaints us with the tragic story of Agandecca that we might recognize the incentive which induces Fingal to release Swaran unconditionally at the end.

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“JOSEPH AND HIS BRETHREN” When we look back at the best productions in contemporary literature during the past few years, a certain number of books seem to have made a decided impression on our memory because of their individuality, because at one time they seemed so uncommon to us. It is true that few such books make their appearance, but we always get a lasting impression of them when they do ap­ pear. Books like “The Bridge of San Luis Rey,” “Giants in t&e Earth” and “•Talna” in contemporary novels are few and far between, l)ut who will forget them ? Whether such books are “mas­ terpieces” and will “live” is beside the point; they are immensely interesting today, and we are prone to state, that posterity ought to consider itself lucky if,they do survive.

Another book of this kind appeared during the past few months under the title, “Joseph and His Brethren,” Without a doubt the author, H. W. Freeman, an Englishman less than thirty years of age, got his idea from Scriptures, but the tale that he tells is a pure combination of experience and an accurate imagination.

That old familiar setting, the countryside of southern England, is again brought before us, but in the form of an interestingly simple and modern novel of the soil. The characters are so different from those of almost all modern novels, that one is veritably seized by a desire to learn to know them personally and to share their naive and inartificial home-life.

A father and his five sons spend their lives building up a for­ saken farm in Suffolk. The eccentric old man uses extreme meas­ ures at first to prevent his sons from leaving the homestead, but in the end' the brothers are so imbibed with a passion for their farm, that they cannot leave it. During the course of the narrative the father seduces and marries a young girl, with whom all the broth­ ers are in love. The issue of this marriage, Joseph, becomes the pet of his five half-brothers, and together they strive against the difficulties which arise from their father’s death and the marriage 312

of Joseph’s mother to a spendthrift. The story closes with the six brothers in sole possession of the farm, from which they had been driven by Joseph's step-father.

It would be advisable to read an intensely modern society novel before reading “Joseph and His Brethren/' in order to appreciate the latter fully. One will be in a better position to realize in what a distinctive sphere it lies. The salacious atmosphere of O’Neill’s 44Strange Interlude” is an excellent foundation for “Joseph and His Brethren.”

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THE UNUSUAL Emmet Merrill slowly ambled down the street, dolefully eye­ ing the busy traffic. As the strains of “Collegiate,” syncopated by a raucous jazz orchestra in a near-liy chop-suey restaurant, reached his ear, he shrugged impatiently and mused in his disgusted dis­ appointment. So this was Carnac! Egypt! Land of mystery and heavy with the secrets of the past \ Land of glamour and dreams, where anything might happen—but nothing did. No more glamour and dreams here than in any middle-western city of the same size in the United States—and considera1)ly more filth. And as for mystery and secrets of the past—even the pyramids and ruins of ancient Egypt were surrounded by "American Barbecue■一 25c，” souvenir stands, and dirty beggars. Well, he might have known that all his romantic notions about Egypt and adventures in this land of romance were bound to l)e Hops—at least he had cured himself of the old longings and dreams. Reality saw to that—only one thing left to do: turn in at this curio shop, buy souvenirs for the folks at home, and beat it out of here.

He remained standing and gazing at the trinkets, odds and ends displayed in the shop’s small, dirty display windows. He picked out the things he intended purchasing, then entered the dark and musty shop to make his choice known.

A wrinkled, ancient Egyptian hobbled up to him, eager to sell.

He had a little fantastic history to tell in connection with each of the things lie had to sell, and in Emmet Merrill he found an inter­ ested though skeptic listener. Merrill was glad to encourage the old man and listened to him several hours and admired and ex­ claimed over the Egyptian’s treasures in a way to win that old man’s heart. Finally, rather hesitatingly, the Egyptian offered to show him the most treasured possession of all. He produced an intricately carved box, unlocked it, and carefully took out an oddly shaped object. He handed it to the puzzled Merrill.

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“What under th—?! 'It looks like—it is a mummy’s hand!

What’s the idea?”

Feeling a little revolted yet oddly interested and greatly amused he waited for the tale that was certainly forthcoming.

“That is the hand of the princess Khasnefre, granddaughter of the Pharaoh Cheops. During the excavations a workman grew careless and as a consequence of his carelessness the hand broke off. He stuck it into his pocket for good luck— —” “Like the left hind-foot of a rabbit,” Merrill interposed.

‘•I beg your pardon?”

“Go on.”

“He said nothing for fear of losing his employment. Soon one misfortune after another fell upon this man. He believed this hand caused them and gave it to me to sell as a curiosity, paper­ weight, or what I wished. I have sold it several times, but soon each purchaser returned it saying it preyed on his mind, caused evil dreams, and the like•” “This is something like it!” exclaimed Merrill. “I smell ad­ venture, the uncanny. Are you willing to sell it again?”

Needless to say the man was w illing, and the sale was soon completed. Returning to his hotel Merrill felt his old interest in Egypt revive, and the hope that perhaps something extraordinary might happen persisted. He unwrapped his last purchase and care­ fully examined it. How small the hand was and how slender and tapering! What tales couldn't it tell if it were able. Possibly it had played the harp for the Pharaoh. What did the Princess look like? Curiosity and eagerness to find out everything possible con­ nected with the history of the Princess Khasnefre determined him to buy supplies and go to the place where Khasnefre lay embalmed.

He sat at his desk with the mummy’s hand in his, planning his expedition. At last he was on the trail of the unusual!

The sun had been blisteringly hot all day, and Merriirs eyes hurt from the unaccustomed glare on the hot sand, his brain reeled, and he was on the point of exhaustion when he at length reached the place where the work of excavating had gone forward a few years ago, only to be abandoned for lack of funds. He intended to sleep in one of the many hollows made near the tomb. Accordingly he made the necessary preparations, feeling the while an uncomfortable creepy sensation. “Nothing but the feeling everyone has when they're in a cemetery alone at night,” he reassured himself when his scalp prickled persistently.

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t the level at which the desert now lay. He tried to calm his strained nerves by prosaic speculations on how long it must have taken to dig down to the level at which he now was. His eye again fell on the doorway. Was that a darker shadow there than before? In the moonlight he could not be sure. Inwardly he flayed himself for being a superstitious, fearful nincompoop. Scared of nothing!

Shame! Determinedly he closed his eyes as tightly as he could only to open them at once with a start. Surely that 'va彡 the sound of suppressed sobs. Swiftly and silently he crept to the doorway and peered in. There in the darkest shadow sat a small bent figure weeping bitterly. He watched in silence. Then the sobs tore at his heart. Why should so small a person have so great a grief?

He approached and awkwardly patted the person on the shoulder.

“There, what's the trouble? Can I help you?” It proved to be a dainty young lady with an odd though vaguely familiar head­ dress, large almond-shaped eyes, dark-hued and foreignly beautiful, although her face was distorted by grief. She did not seem startled or alarmed at being accosted by a stranger in this lonesome place.

“Oh, my hand! My hand! ooh!” she sobbed.

“Let’s see. Maybe I can fix it,” he offered.

I can fix it,” he offered.

“Oooh! My hand! It’s gone!”

“It’s gone? Say, who are you?” he asked excitedly as a light dawned on him.

“I am Khasnefre, granddaughter of Pharaoh, and favorite of the great god Rha.” Awe and excitement held him speechless a moment. This was unusual beyond his wildest fancies.

“I believe I can help you. But first tell me the circumstances, all about everything. What are you doing alive anyhow ? You’re dead! Tell me how you do it,” he demanded.

“As I said, I am the granddaughter of the mighty Cheops.

Thro)ugh my harp-playing I was able to please the Pharaoh and win his affections. We were very dear to one another. Even the great sun-god Rha heard my playing with favor and it pleased him to offer me through the high-priest any boon which I should ask.

Through the kindness of the Pharaoh T already had everything I could desire for my person. I wished to ask of Rha somethling which would please my grandfather and which he could not win for himself in spite of his great might, wealth, and wisdom. There­ fore, I asked that, after I and the Pharaoh and the entire court had died we should all be permitted to return to life on the night of the third moon of every third century and to live again for the_one night the old court life and enjoy the pomp and splendor, This was granted. At the stated times I awaken and find that the em­ balming clothes fall away, and I am again clothed in the court cos­ tume you see now, and in my hand I always find this little harp.

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As I play it this tomb is transformed into Cheop’s court room; throne, lights, servants, luxury, all appear. At last my playing also awakens the Pharaoh and his court, who also rest here, and they come forth, and for the one night we again live our old life of royal ease and pleasure. At dawn our Kas, spirits of life, again depart, and the court room is re-transformed and we return to our sarcophaguses to dream and to anticipate the next awakening. The Plmraoh eagerly awaits these reunions. They please him as noth­ ing ever did in all his reign. Tonight is the night we have antici­ pated for three centuries. I awoke as at other times, found my harp—but my hand is gone! I cannot play. They will all be bitterly disappointed, and I—I wanted them so. Without my play­ ing they are bound and can not awaken. Oh, my hand! Where is it?” She ended her strange recital on a sob.

“One moment and you shall have it.” Merrill went to his pack, and returned with the box containing the hand. He unlocked the little chest and handed it to her. She put into it the arm without the hand and withdrew the arm with the hand on, warm and living.

The box was empty.

“Oli, how can 1 thank you! I will remember you and be grate­ ful to you through the centuries. Is there anything I can do for you in return?M Merrill did not hesitate, “Let me stay and watch the affair to­ night, and I will be more than repaid,” he begged.

“I am so very sorry, but that wish is not in my power to grant.

Accept instead my blue scarabaeus. And now please go. The Pharaoh must not be kept waiting longer. Every minute is pre­ cious when there are only so few in hundreds of years.”

With the scarabaeus in his hand Merrill reluctantly turned to go, the sweet haunting music of the royal harpist in his ears.

“Will the gentleman have his supper in his room?”

With a start Merrill turned around to see the Egyptian floorman bowing and smiling in his doorway. He nodded. Whew!

He must have been sleeping. But what an odd dream! That’s what he got for indulging his fancies too much and allowing him­ self to become so worked up over a little thing like this mummy’s hand. But where was the hand ? His hand, which had been hold­ ing the mummy’s hand when he sat down at his desk a few minutes before, now held a blue scarabaeus.

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BLUECHER EIN GEBORENER SOLDAT Der Name Bluechers ist allgemein bekannt, denn er war es, der den Englaendern bei Waterloo zu Hilfe eilte, als sie aufs hef316

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tigste von den Franzosen l)edroengt wurden mid so die bevorstehende Niederlage in einen Sieg verwandelte. Also hat Bluecher dazu beigetragen, dass Napoleon gestuerzt, und dass Europa von dessen Knechtung befreit wurde. A1)er wer war eigentlich clieser Bluecher ?

Und 'vie kam es, dass er beim deutschen Volk, so beliebt war und noch ist? Denn unsere Grossvaeter erzaehlten sich gegenseitig, und auch uns Enkeln, vom alten Bluecher und ruehmten ihn als einen grossen General.

Gebliard Leberecht von Bluecher wurde am 16. December des Er. Jahres 1742 zu Rostock in Mecklenburg-Schwerin geboren. erhielt sehr wenig Schulung und stand deni einfachen Volk sehr nahe, denn dies war auch nicht sehr hoch gebildet. Schon in der fruehsten Jugencl fuehlte er das Verlangen Soldat zu werden, und zwar Hussar. Und da es Krieg die Fuelle in Europa gab, so hatte er reichlich Gelegenheit. Und so folgte er schon im Siebenjaehrigen Krieg dem Beruf eines Soldaten, indeni er in ein schwedisches Hussarenregiment eintrat. Das Geschick aber wollte es, class er schon in se.ner ersten Schlacht von den Preussen gefangen wurde.

Die freie, offene und frcundliche Art Bluechers geficl dem preussischen Offizier, und dieser ueberredete Bluecher, l)ei den Preussen sein Glueck versuchen. Und er erhob ihn zu clem Rang eines Leutnants. Der Offizier beging aber den Fchler,, den Sohn eines adeligen Hauses ueber ihn zu stellen. Dies konnte Bluecher nicht ertragen, 'veil er erkannte, dass jener nichts Ordentliches verstand.

Und er suchte sofort uni seine Entlassung nach. Er wandte sich also an Friedrich den Grossen mit den Worten : “Von Jaegersfeld, der nicht wuerdiger ist, wenn er nicht zufaellig der Sohn des Markgrafen von Schwedt waere, ist ueber mich gestellt worden. Ich bitte um meine Entlassuiig.” Darauf folgte die derbe und knappe Antwort Friedrichs: “Der Kapitaen Bluecher hat die Freiheit sich zum Teufel zu sclieren.”

Missmutig und enttaeuscht verliess Bluecher die Armee und zog sich auf sein Gut in Pommern zurueck. Nachdem er sich eine Zeitlang dem Akerbau gewiclmet hatte, wurde (lie alte Kriegslust in ihm wieder wach, so dass er alles stehen und liegen Hess und nu Jahre 1787 wieder in die preussische Armee als Oberst der Hussaren eintrat. Aus etlichen der ersten Treffen gegen die Franzosen ging er siegreich hervor, so dass er das Zuvertrauen seiner Truppen gewann. Er floesste ihnen sowohl Mut als auch Selbstvertrauen ein durch sein gutes Beispiel im Vordringen 'vie auch mit seinem guten Zureden, wie “Na Jungens, heut mal echt preussisch drein geschlagen T* Und dies war sehr noetigf, denn an Mut fehlte es hauptsaechlich, um gegen die Franzosen aufzutreten. Auch lenkte er so die Aufmerksamkeit der Obrigkeit auf sich. Denn alle andern wurden, wie Hasen von den Franzosen vor sich her ge­ 317

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Docli hatte er das Missgeschick gefangen zu werden, als er Luebeck verteidigle. Er erlangte aber seine Freiheit wieder (lurch Austauscli. Bald darauf drang- Napoleon darauf, class Bluecher e:ne ehrenhafte Entlassung erhalte unter dem Vorwande, class er zu alt sei, uni in den Krieg zu ziehen. Der wahre Grund aber lag tiefer. Napoleon hatte Respekt vor diesem Hussaren Kapitaen, 'vie er Bluecher zu nennen pflegte. Bluecher hatte es schon oefter laut werden lassen, class Napoleon besiegt werden koen.ne, wenn man nur recht zu Werke ginge. Bluecher fuegle sich in sein Schicksal, cloch stimmte er keineswegs mit Napoleon ueberein.

Ini Jahre 1813 wurde Bluecher jedoch zurueck gerufen und zum Oberbefehlshaber der preussischen Armee ernannt. Und so standen sich Bluecher und Napoleon docli wieder gegenueber, aber Napoleon hatte bei weitcm den Vorteil. Napoleon war zu der Zeit in der Bluete seiner Jahre, denn r war erst fuenfundvierzig.

Bluecher dagegen war ein Greis von einundsiebzig Jahren. Dann darf man auch nicht uebersehen, class sie in ganz verschiedenen Verhaeltnissen standen. Napoleons Befelil war unbescliraenkt, Bluecher dagegen war nicht allein auf Preussen ange'viesen, sondem ei. musste aucli iioch auf Russland und Oesterreich horchen.

Und diese machten es sich zur Aufgabe ilminer zu zoegern, denn sie xvollten Preussen nicht va\ maechtig' werden lassen, sondern Deutsch­ land solltc wic vorher wieder zerstueckelt werden.

Als Bluecher nun zum Oberbefehlshaber ernannt wurde, zeigte er manche Eigcnluemlichkeiten. Seine Offiziere pflegten sich mit der Ausarbcitung von Plaenen zu beschaeftigen. Waehrend dieser Zeit lehntc Bluecher jedoch am Kainin und rauchte gemuetlich seine Pfeife. Wenn ihm nachher die Plaene vorgelegt wurden zu seiner Begutachtung, pflegte er zu erwidern: “Schon gut, meine Herrn, aber das wird sich alles finden, wenn Ich nur erst mit meinen Jungens drein bin.” Und dann rauchte er ganz gemuetlich noch eine Pfeife. Dies war seine Art. Er war kein Stratege und plannte nicht im voraus, cloch verachtete er dies nicht. Seine Weise war, ein Gefecht anzufangen und dann die passenden Plaene zu entwerfen. So tat er es auch bei Katzbach, wo er ein Heer von 50,000 Mann unter Marschal Macdonald voellig vernichtete. Er. wartete ruhig ab, bis genug Franzosen den Fluss durchkreuzt hatten, und dann stuerzte er sich mit voller Macht auf die erstaunten Gegner und warf sie zurueck in den Fluss. Dann nahm er auch teil an der Voelkerschlacht zu Leipzig, und seine Abteilung war die erste, die in die Stadt einbrach. Er kreuzte zuerste den Rhein und verfolgte die Franzosen bis vor Paris, waehrend sich die andern mit Friedensplaenen abgaben und dann erst folgten, so dass sie Paris zum Fallen brachten.

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Die best gekleideten und stattlichsten Gruppen duerften nur hinein.

Erbost erwiderte dann Bluecher auf die Einladung, dass er selbst mit ziehen solle: “Wenn meine Jungens nicht hinein duerfen, bleibe ich auch draussen.” Zur Belohnung fuer seine Tapferkeit wurde er zum Prinzen von Wahlstadt gemacht. Er besuchte gleich nach der Einnahme von Paris London, wo er stuermisch empfangen wurde, 'vie selten ein Deutscher. Im Jahre 1815 uebernahm er wiederuni die Fiiehrung des preussischen Heeres und half, 'vie schon erwaehnt wurde, Wellington aus der Klemme. Er starb vier Jahre spaeter und sah es nicht mehr, (.lass sein hocchster Wunsch in Erfuellung ging: Dass Deuschland ein Reich wurde.

Wenn man seinen Leiden si an f uebersieht, merkt man in diesem alten, abgehaerteten Krieger einen hoechst interessanlen Charakter.

Seit seiner fruehsten Jugend war cr Soldat, und cr hiclt auch noch im zweiundsiebzigsten Jahre sein Schlachtross zwischen den Beinen wie ein Juengling, so class man sagen kann, class er ein borener Soldat war. Denn er hat sich mit nichts weiler beschaeftigt als mit deni Kriege. Er war ein Mccklenljurger von echtem Schrot und Korn. In seiner Rede war sein Dialect immer erkennbar. Er war frei, offen, freundlich, gelassen und erstrebte das gemeine Wohl. Doch konnte er auch sclirecklich grob werdcn, wenn ihm einer widersprach oder zum besten hiclt. Er trug sich immer mit dem Gedanken herum, Deutschland zu vereinigen. Er bildete eine wunderliche, beinahe laecherliche, Figur wenn er mit der krummen Pfeife im Munde, wie sie unsere Grossvaeter benutzten, vo亡 seinen Soldaten her ritt.

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THE NEW ULM MASSACRE Many changes have taken place the last century―changes that affected all walks and phases of life. I just have to mention the radio，automobile, air-ancl seacrafts. Even many of the things untrue. taught us in our grade school days, have now been proved _ Many of our historical heroes have been shown to be men of not so noble a character as we thought them to be. Most of the changes have been the result of science and man’s strife for ad­ vancement and progress. As a very natural result following in 319

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In the middle of the nineteenth century New Ulm, Minnesota, was just a small settlement of Germans, who had come over from Wuertemberg, near Ulm. These Germans and the surrounding Indians were on very friendly terms. They intermingled with each other, and in hard times the Indians came into the houses of the settlers and begged or traded for bread. These Sioux Indians, however, who in resentment of their ill treatment by governmental agents and for the nonarrival of their annuities from Washington, took advantage of the fact that many of the male population had departed to join the Union Army and had left their homes unpro­ tected. The Indians needed food and money. If the whites cheated them, why should they not take revenge on the whites ? This was a very logical conclusion to the Indian. They would just as soon take revenge on these unprotected settlers as on any one else. The Indians adopted the ruse of entering the houses of settlers under the pretext of begging or trading for bread. These Germans,, not suspecting any treachery, admitted them as usual. Through this deception the Indians entered most of the houses. They then 320

3 turned upon the friendly settlers and murdered more than seventy men, women, and children. They took most everything that was moveable along. A squad of Germans, who were using wagons with banners, headed by a band, to recruit for the Union Army along the frontier, were fired upon from ambush and several killed.

This incident happened about seven miles from New Ulm. The men, however, were able to effect their retreat and to alarm the countryside. While the Indians were retreating, the town was fix­ ing a blockade to defend itself against further attacks. The smoke rising from ruined homes served to apprise the settlers in every direction of the occurrence of extraordinary events and to hasten them to the town for common protection.

The next morning, Tuesday, August 19, the Indians were rov­ ing in every direction throughout the neighborhood; and appear­ ing before the town, they opened an attack on the outposts stationed west and southwest of the settlement. The Germans re­ treated, with the Indians forcing their way into the center of the town where the fighting continued until nightfall. Many gave up their lives in this skirmish. The next morning the band of red men had left New Ulm to surprise a small garrison at Fort Ridgely and to destroy it preparatory to a campaign of murder and rapine along the Minnesota Valley. The news of the attack had soon been spread far and wide and reinforcements were on the \vay from Mankato, St. Peter, and Le Sueur. The people at Fort Ridgely bravely with­ stood the attack. The Indians strongly reinforced and greatly embittered, again marched upon New Ulm determined to destroy every homestead in the village. They flew like ghosts from house to house and set many homes on fire with their torches. Soon the little village was a mass of flames. On the twenty-third of August the settlers succeeded in barricading themselves on a small area of ground, where they were in a better position to continue the uneven struggle. Not an Indian was able to carry fire within reach of this small fortress. The fighting continued until late at night and was resumed the next morning. After several hours of fierce fighting the Indians realized that they were at a disadvantage, and learning from their scouts that strong reinforcements were to arrive very soon, abandoned the siege. Towards noon the red men left in the direction of Fort Ridgely, but believing it too strong, they did not attack it.

Hundreds of women and children had been put into the small­ est quarters during these days. A number of families had either wholly or partly perished and one hundred and seventy-eight homes had been destroyed. The survivors decided to go to Mankato and St. Peter to see what would happen in the course of events. The next Monday a train of one hundred and fifty wagons, carrying the survivors including fifty-six wounded and sick, left New Ulm. 321

Most of the people scattered throughout the state to begin life over again. Later some of them returned to New Ulm with other sett­ lers.

The innocent Germans had thus paid the penalty of crimes committed by others who were permitted to profit by their fraudu­ lent treatment of the Indians. General Sibley had been sent by the government to follow the Indians. After a long search he cap­ tured about three hundred of these murderers. They were im­ prisoned in a military camp on the Minnesota River. Many plans were fostered secretly to murder the Indians. Thirty-three of them were hanged at Mankato, and the rest were given life imprison­ ment. Little Crow, a half civilized leader of the Indians, objected to the massacre. He was mortally wounded in the flight and was killed by his son, whom he in his misery had implored to end his life. Several statues in and about New Ulm commemorate this gruesome massacre.

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Not all good literature can be called classic. There are what are called timely articles. They treat of some great event in the world at the present time. They may be very good and widely read by people who want to inform themselves of present affairs. Yet they soon lose their popularity and are very apt to be forgotten.

They lose their temporal value and have no permanent value to keep them in the foreground. Evidently this kind of literature will not survive to become a classic. A classic must have permanent value. Yet it is wrong to think that literature which is now con­ sidered as belonging to the classics had no temporary importance.

All its temporary significance and glamour have been lost, yet it still has importance. A classic must be a book or article which has been preserved. That does not mean that just because a book has been written five hundred or a thousand years ago it is a classic.

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The mere fact the certain books which we call classics have been preserved indicates that they have some value and are not worthless. But if they have a value, it is certainly profitable to read them, and the remark that A. Conan Doyle is said to have made is very appropriate. “It might be no bad thing for a man now and again to make a literary retreat, as pious men make a spiritual one; to foreswear absolutely for a month in the year all ephe­ meral literature, and to bring an untarnished mind to the reading of the classics.”

It is true, it is difficult to understand the classics. It is hard for the reader to put himself in the author’s place and mood, but this is necessary in order to understand the author fully. He cannot fully describe all his emotions; the best author can only sug­ gest and every individual mind must carry the suggestion to com­ pletion. Then there is the question of language. A translation of a classic loses much of its beauty. There must then he some great value to outweigh these difficulties, otherwise the classics would not lie read.

The literature which one learns to know in early youth is much nearer and dearer to him than that with which lie later becomes acquainted. A man may not himself become a child, but lie may go back to the beginning of emotional expression, and trace its advance step by step, and feel the newness of each newly discov­ ered expression even as the author did. Many emotions have been so long rcognized and expressed in literature that they hardly make an impression on us, and very often become empty and meaning­ less to us. It is only by going back and tracing these emotional expressions from their childhood, and by studying' them in the simplicity and directness with which the author expressed them, that the expressions which now seem commonplace to us will impress us for the first time as real and sincere. It is chiefly in the classics that we may hope to find this simplicity, directness, and freshness of youth.

It is only from literature that has been stripped of everything tlia.t is unnecessary, from which all passing value is gone, literature which may be looked at dispassionately, and that has withstood t!ie test of time, that we can learn what the standard of merit of literature in general should be. Only by means of this standard can we test the worth of the many books which are now being poured on the market.

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For those who study the Bible for theological purposes the classics have a special value. The study of the language is very useful, because many difficult passages are more clearly understood, if they are read in the original with an understanding of the fine grammatical shadings of construction. Then by studying the clas­ sics we also get an insight or understanding of the life and actions of the people and of conditions at the time of the author. It is through this study tliat we can understand the actions of people mentioned in the I3ihlc and realize that these actions which in our estimation are utterly impossible for a Christian to do, seemed to them perfectly natural, since these people too were children of their times and were influenced l)y the customs and practices in vogue.

As has been said before, the classics are difficult to understand, yet that eiYort which the ordinary reader must apply to rise to the level of the author to understand him thoroughly is profitably expended, for what he gains, more than compensates for that effort.

He who desires a wide view will find that the classics are a great help in obtaining it.

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WHAT PRICE EDUCATION AT NORTHWESTERN? While the advertising sections of our various American jour­ nals are constantly informing us of the dollars and cents value of an education, may it be stated at the onset that this is no purpose of ours. It is of no import to us to speculate on the relative moneyearning possibilities of a four or eight years’ course or the material value of a liberal education, the business advantage of good speech et cetera et alii. To be sure it is no easy ground to tread upon, this embarras de richesses. We should rather agree with Shaw in disliking capital as the standard of our dealings with one another.

But we must accept conditions as they are; our existence, our live­ lihood, even our education depends on the state of our exchequer.

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But is there reason to believe that the students are not altogether as sturdy as they might be? On the contrary all evidence seems to oppose this view. One need only glance at the student body, as active a group, we dare say, as can be found inside or out of a school. It would be difficult to find a lad in the dormitory who has not gained weight while here at college. So much for health ancl, hygiene: they too must be considered as part of the institution.

That other benefit, the higher, the one for which we are all striv­ ing shall not be discussed here. It needs no explanation. Northwestern's scholastic standing speaks for itself. Let any one who doubts it be referred to students who have transferred from among us to other colleges or universities. Keeping in mind these facts then, are we getting more out of our course than we put into it?

Is Northwestern offering us as much for what we invest as other institutions of higher, learning ? Let us consider, as every student must, the costs. Annual charges as designated in our catalog amount to $129.50. This includes board, room, matriculation fees, athletic fees, dormitory fees, and incidentals. Tuition amounting to $100 must be added to the costs of those who are not intending to study theology. There happens to be a catalog of the University of Michigan at hand. We quote from it, not because it happens to be an expensive or inexpensive school, but because we chance to have access to it. The annual charges designated in this catalog for a student of the classics amount to $568 including board, room, tuition, and matriculation fees. At Harvard board, room, and tui­ tion amount to $860 per annum for classical students. These are merely the cold figures and do not include the high living expenses of university life. But do not these figures speak ? Do they not remind us of how extremely moderate our expenses here are?

Surely we might well be grateful rather than complain.

We have discussed here only one of the benefits of our Alma Mater. Numerous others could have been touched upon. Emerson once stated that the best thing he found at college was a solitary chamber. He would have found that too at Northwestern, con­ sider this, you who are bound by strict dormitory regulation. And how much more congenial is a small college than a large university!

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And then we have the other group—the Philistines. Philis­ tines may be divided into the complacent, phlegmatic type, and the envious, superficial type.

This first group attend an institution because manual labor does not appeal to them; they're here because they’re here; they take the course prescribed, doggedly prepare their quota of assign­ ments occasionally, know neither what subjects they are taking nor why. Their life is one prolonged grumble, their philosophy一 “Exist—and let live.” They live in the constant hope that some day life will drop around with the belated silver spoon to which they are most certainly entitled.

And then there is the last class. Very much akin to the for­ mer as regards ambition, they are l)randed by their very sense of humor. Tlie only thing that touches at all their sphere of intelli­ gence is the most raucous and shame-faced slap-stick. They are the elect who can burst a blood vessel laughing at a pie-throwing comedy. Thus one can recognize them at any house of entertain­ ment, a restless, uninterested group when anything' requiring highschool intelligence is being portrayed, sigfhing with relief when the thing is finally at an end, glowing with anticipation when the fool enters.

Ths weakness would be perfectly harmless were it not accom­ panied by another graver fault. They haven’t the ambition to rise above their ignorance, and in defense, they try to drag down into the muck anyone who seeks to rise above their level. From them comes the cry, “Say it in English,” when a speaker is expressing a thought a bit more subtly than their limited scope of knowledge allows them to grasp. They sit in the “panem et circenses” sop­ tion, weep tears at the seduction of the “heeroyne” in the cheap melodrama and cheer the blonde hero as he casts the villain over the cliff-edge. They seek to cover their mental deficiency, their 1 same opportunities— — mental indolence—for, surely, all have the with some easily produced emotion. Sentimentality is a common one, since outwardly it suggests deep source. One frequently hears 328

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Actually, that person is merely incapable of leading his emotions into other channels, and why—because he has been too lazy mentally to develop these channels.

Opportunity fairly blocks the student’s way at any higher school. If he does not make use of the opportunities, the pitiable condition is his own fabrication, and there one can apply the words of a famous man, “Die in your ignorance”

SPRING FOOTBALL The milcl spring weather brings to the athlete thoughts of baseball or spring football. Everyone is dissatisfied with the mo­ notonous indoor life, and his heart beats faster at the thought of spring and the open air. As soon as the snow has melted from the gridiron, we shall hear the thump of booted footballs; that alone is enough to make one think of spring football.

There will be spring- football again this year, since last year’s practice was very beneficial to both lettermcn and inexperienced candidates. The successful results were evident in last fairs drills.

It was not necessary to dwell on the fundamentals very long; this gave the coaches an opportunity to devote more time to plays and early scrimmage. This certainly is necessary, when we consider our schedule, at least last year’s. Two of the hardest games, the ones with Ripon and Carroll, have been dropped this year, and teams from smaller schools have been given games. Still our next year’s schedule is not an easy one. The squad will therefore have to do some hard work during the spring training and gain as much experience as possible during these four weeks.

It surely is not pleasant to look back at the record of our last season. Nevertheless, it should not discourage next year’s squad, but it should be an incentive. We are losing seven lettermen through graduation, and that means that much material will be needed to fill the vacant positions. That is not the only reason that more material will be needed, for we must have much reserve material. Everyone knows that we have been in dire need of re- ^ serves during the last few seasons. The grind of playing every game is too great. A player cannot fully recuperate before the next game, since it is necessary to have a few hard scrimmages during the week. The success of next year’s season will depend very much on the work the experienced and inexperienced players will 329

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THE CHARM OF NOVELS Why do we read novels? Is it because we get a kick out of the mere story? If that were the case, we should merely be wast­ ing- an immense amount of time every time we read a novel. We surely could get the plot and the general trend of the story from a book review or a synopsis. We expect to be put into different worlds, out of the humdrum of our daily life. We enjoy the story as such, but seek more than this when reading a book. We seek knowledge: we wish to get acquainted with the author’s views, ideas, and his own peculiar style, in which he carries out his im­ pressions and conceptions. But the real charm of novels lies deep­ er; it can be found in only one place—the author’s own mind. In every case the author's work is an invention of his imagination, The author invites us to take a trip through the more interesting portions of his own mind; he shows us his world, the world created by his imagination. If what he has to offer us isn’t, worth seeing, he cannot shift the responsibility for its dullness and dreariness Oil the universe: it is he who is (lull and dreary, not the subject he chooses. It is not enough that the novelist create a character, but he must also create a world in which that character can move about freely. What a lonely and lifeless place his world would be with­ out a character. Naturally the author’s world and characters rep­ resent tlie persons and places with which he comes into contact and with which he is 'yell acquainted. If we are to； have a great American novel, it must arise in the mind of a great American.

His mind must be large enough to take in the real America; it must have space for all sorts and conditions of men; it must have its own heroes and its own hero worship; it must have humor, curiosity, and life.

W. P”，29.

RESPICE FINEM According to Webster a motto is a significant sentence, phrase or word, an axiom of practical wisdom borne on an escutcheon or shield. But how often don’t we find graduating classes selecting some high-sounding phrase from some famous author, which ex­ presses a mere fact but no extraordinary precept or norm for the life that they are about to begin. We believe the motto of this 330

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Then, too, in later life, when we shall have realized oui：. ambi­ tions concerning our calling, this our motto will again be invalu­ able. In every undertaking, in whatever profession it may be, we shall always be mindful of the consequences of our enterprises be­ fore venturing upon any definite method of procedure. Again, in carrying out our plans the liability to err from the direct road to success will not be so great, if we occasionally say to ourselves, “Res.pice finem.” The failure or success of our endeavors natur­ ally is eminently dependent upon the way in which we attack and carry out our aim.

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j明 一Together with Ex-Secretary of State F. Kellogg, William Notz, Ph. D., '97, lately received the honorary degree of L. L. D. from Georgetown University, Washington, I). C. Dr. Notz is professor at the Dean School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University.

—On March 3, Prof. Elmer Kiessling, ’17, was the leading speaker on the program given by the City of Watertown in the high school auditorium in honor of its most eminent former citizen, Carl Schurz. Prof. Kiessling spoke on the life of Carl Schurz. 一Dr. and Mrs. J. II. Ott, ’85, attended the banquet given at Mil­ March 3, by the Muehlcnberg Unit 36 of the Steuben waukee, Society of America to celebrate the centenary of Carl Schurz.

—The library fund of Northwestern College received a bequest of five hundred dollars from the late Rudolf and Caroline Jaster of Montcllo, Wisconsin. They were llic parents of Rev. Edwin Jaster, ’21，of Bristol, Wisconsin. 一Prof. O. E. Plath，D. Sc.，’10，of Boston University, recently donated fifty dollars towards the Northwestern library building fund. Vi vat sequens. 一Rev. Reuben Marti, ’22, has accepted a call as pastor of two congregations near Allentown, Wisconsin. 一Oil March 1, Prof. Paul Eickmann, 516, had the misfortune of incurring some severe phosphorous burns on his hands while quenching a pygmy fire that occurred at the staging of “A Night in Alchemy” l)y the Northwestern Literary Societies.

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town. He visited with his sister-in-law, Miss Irmgard Dornfeld, who at present is a patient at St. Mary’s Hospital.

—Rev. Henry Lehmann, ’23, of Millboro, So. Dak., has lately been confined to the hospital on account of grave injuries which he received in a gas lamp explosion.

—G. Rosenhauer，’28，W. Amacher, *28, A. Voigt, ’28, and A. Wolfgram, ex ’28, witnessed the North Central-Northwestern game on February 23. 一Alumni that saw Northwestern play Concordia on March 2, were L. Sabrowsky, *28, F. Reuter, ’28, ’28, F. Gilbert, ’28, Miss Ruth Nommensen, Acad” Frank, Acad., *27, Martin Zilz, ’28，A. Maaske，’28, Acad., '27, S. Westendorf, ’28.

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參pmittarg Noto Die Erfahrung hat uns gelehrt, class uiiserc Dissertationen viel gelesen, ja, auch viel VERlesen, E. G., missvcrstanden werden.

Missverstaendnis ist 1 eider moeglich, aber nichl noetig. Fuer die, die sie missverstehen, haben wir nun einen gulen Rat; sie sollen sie lieber nicht lesen; denn fuer sie sind diese Dissertationen garnicht geschrieben und verursachen bios sauere Magen. Nein, wir draengen uns keineswegs auf, sondern verweiscn die Verwirrtcn auf Max und Moritz, oder so etwas. Um die Seminary Notes mit freiem Verstaendnis lesen zu koennen ist ein gewisses Quantum Bildung erforderlich. Man sollte wenigstens cine unserer Vorschulen durchgemacht haben, wie, z. B., unser Northwestern College in Watertown.

Aber bei alledem ist das Lesen dieser Notes immer viel leichter als das Schreiben. Darin stimmt mir auch unser Fritz Reuter bei; denn es will sich absolute keiner zu meiner SchriCtstellcrei hergeben.

Aber es sollte doch keiner seinen Hass auf mich schmeissen, weil ich ein paar lustige Geschichten von ihm erzaehlt habe; denn er Schrift_ muss doch bedenken, was soli zuletzt aus meiner ganzen stellerei werden, wenn sich keiner mehr aus purer Menschenliebe clazu hergibt, dass ich einmal von ihm reden darf. Erzaehle ich eine Geschichte von eii;em Cheviebesitzer; dann dreht er mir den Ruecken zu und sagt: uHerr, sie sind ein Klugschwaetzer und haben keinen Dunst, was ein gutes Auto sei.” Sage ich mal was neber den Koch, dann sagt er: “Schaemen sie sich was! Das ist ein 333

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Und einer setzt dann noch spitz hinzu: “Sie glauben auch wohl, Sie sind was besseres als wir; aber Sie sind doch auch bios einer von uns.

Und ich sage dann: “Da haben Sie recht. Aber—nehmen Sie’s nicht uebel! Sie kommen auch in clieser Geschichte vor, aber nicht boesartig, bios plaesierlich.”

Der richtige Student teilt seine Zeit schoen ein, in saure Ar­ beit und in suesse VVohltaten fuer die Menschheit. Damit will ich aber nicht sagen, class es damit bei jedem abgetan ist; nein! Welche legen sich noch schwere Lasten als Nebengeschaefte auf: Welche geben immer aus, welche n eh men immer in. Das erste bezieht sich auf alle Autobesitzer, das zvveite auf Sam Lemke allein.

Sehr viele legen sich bei dieser Winterzeit auch auf die Jagd und schiessen den Tag ueber immer umschichtig aus dem rechten und aus (lem linken Nascnloch auf eine weisse Zielscheibe. Und wenn sie des Abends jagdmuede im Bett liegen, koennen sie unserein Hcrrgott fuer seine Gnaden danken, dass er ihnen ein so schoenes doppcllaeufiges Gewehr mitten ins Gesicht gesetzt hat.

Ja, der cine betreibt dies, der andere das als Nebengeschaeft; aber fuer die Schicsserei sind zwei ganz bestimmte Personen verantwortlich zu halten. Wir sagen’s frei heraus, und hierin loben wir sie nicht. Ju, wir muessen auch ihre Namen liennen, obwohl nomina eorum odiosissima sunt. Das sind unser Winterkoenig Alexander und unser Schneekoenig Winter. Die bei den haben uns das Leben gruendlich verwintert clicsen Winter. Wie oft klapperten nicht unsere Zaehne an unserem Studiertisch vor Frost und Kaelte, waehrend draussen cler Winter heulte, unci der Schneekoenig sich frente, dass er uns bald wieder ans Schaufeln stellen konnte. Wahrlich, unsere beiden Winterherrscher sind grimmige Fuersten, denen der Kanonendonner wie liebliche Musik in den Ohren droehnt.

Darum heisst der Winterkoenig auch billig “Alexander der Schreckliche” und der Schneekoenig “Winter, cler Grausame.” Doch Rettung naht; bald hoert der Terrorismus auf, die Schicsserei laesst nach, (lie Winterei ist aus, und mildere Herrscher bringt uns der Fruehling. Aus eissigen Ruinen blueht bald ein frisches Leben auf.

Von Rechts wegen sollten wir nun auch noc.h etwas ueber einen Punkt sagen, der uns alle im innersten Magen angeht und uns alien gleich interessant ist; und das ist die Speisefrage. Wir koennten ein Buch schreiben ueber die vergnuegten Magen seit der erfolgreichen Amtstaetigkeit unseres Oberspeisemeisters : Dass durch den phenomenalen Kostaufschwung alle ehemals wunden Magell­ 334

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Nota: Es versteht sich am Rande, class beim Essen das Siegel gebrochen und der Mund geoeffnet werden clarf.

Nun wissen wir, dass Herr Degner (von Ixonia?) sich schon die ganze Zeit gewundert hat, ob er hier wohl auch vorkommt; (lenn er hat auch ein boeses Gewissen. Darum seien ihm (liese paar Zcilen gewidmet. Er ist ja schon anderweidig selten ini Druck ausgebrochen. Ein grosser Mann macht sich einfach bemerkbar.

Die Studentenschaft beschaeftigt sich oft mit schr schwierigen Fragen. Das ist aber kein Schade, sondern crzeugt vielmehr selbststaendige Leute und dermalcins gute Lehrer. Als ein Muster in dieser Hinsicht hat sich in neuster Zeit Herr Fischer bewiesen, der uns aus einer jahrelangen Lehrfrage half. Doch u ni Genaueres suche man die Bekanntschaft dieses Grossen selbst. Ja, wir haben schon manches Raetsel geloest, schon manche Nuss geknacktâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and how!

Und nun Froehliche Ostern! Was ? Wie koenncn wir froehliche Ostern feiern weit, weit von unserei* Hcimal, weit von unserem Elternhause ? wenn wir keine Osterferien bekoninien. Da heisstâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, schickt eucli in die Zeit. Aber darum noclimals Froehliche Ostern, denn wer in unseren Stiefeln steckt, der hat den Wunsch ganz besonders noetig.

P. S.: Diese Seminary Notes sollen das grosse Ge1)iet (les Seminarlebens nicht erschoepfen, sondern sie sind nur ein Guide.

REVOCATIO: Es tut deni Schreibcr von Herzen leid, dass er diese Zeilen schreiben muss, aber die Ehrlichkeit fordert es. In der vorigen Nummer schrieb ich, dass die Chcviebesitzer mehr vor, unter und hinter ihrem Wagen sitzen als liinter dem Steuerrad.

Seit der Zeit habe ich meine Anschauung ueber die Chevies und ihre Besitzer total geaenclert. Ich bin seitdem der glueckliche (?)

Besitzer von zwei Fords (N. B. nicht cars) geworden. Nun erkenne ich, dass auch ich manche Stuncle in der unmittelbaren Naehe nieiner Fords verlebe. Wenn ich liegen will, gehe ich nicht mehr ins Bett, sondern unter meine Cars. Da ich zwei Cars zu kurbeln habe, stimme ich den Cheviebesitzern bei, dass ihre Kasten doch leichter in Gang zu setzen sind. Tn der guten Hoflfnung, class bald jemand mir eine Ford abnimmt, widerrufe ich (um Friedens willen) in grosser Demut die Verleumdung gegen die Chevies.

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A little study of any 1929 calendar and a glance at page three in the college catalog will disclose to the reader the truth of these facts, taking for granted that he does not know them already: that three-quarters of the school year has passed, gone forever, and that there arc but two months and a half left. Whether the time has been used to the best of the iiidividuals’s ability we leave to his • conscience, in view of the fact that we have enough pangs to bur­ den our own. The blood of the time he has killed must rest upon his own head, for ours trickles into our own eyes. The two months remaining are not in the least conducive to hard work over open volumes. School seems to run against the grain at that time (Some feel that it always does). Windows are thrown open, adult flies buzz and zigzag on the window-panes, outdoor life awakens, and inwithin doors people are gripped with a peculiar drowsiness, clination toward day-dreaming or actual sleep. Day-dreaming- usu­ ally takes the form of a strong desire for the outdoors coupled with a wish for the “suesse Nichtstun” and difficulty in holding one’s mind to the print of textbooks. To speak plainly, it’s springfever. Easter vacation, we find, begins at ten-thirty o’clock March 22. Really, with due pardon begged, we are forced to gai;isay that, for Easter vacation actually begins on the twentieth or twenty-first when people’s minds leave the body, like the Egyptian ba, for an Easter vacation. Let it be said that if vacation should be scheduled to begin on the twentieth, it would actually begin on the nineteenth.

School will open again on April 2. This announcement is for all those, unacquainted with the catalog and not for those privileged to extend their vacations at will.

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The editor of this column again owes his thanks to the literary societies this month for their energetic work in helping him to com­ pile this chronicle, for we are certain that without their aid this column would consist of little more than the cut above it. In the past month, up until the time of this printing, three programs were given，two by the Phi Gamma Rlio and one by the Philomathean Society. The first of these, prepared by W. Faustian, consisted of two musical numbers, a piano solo, “Marche Hongroise，” played

by P. Schliesser, and a vocal solo by the quartette. Louis Bleich'vehl spoke shortly on Boulder Dam, E. Krueger gave a reading from the Pickwick Papers, and A. Harke gave a poetical number.

A short play, adapted for the board from Thackeray's “Vanity Fair，” compDieted the program. The scene was laid in a Hotel-room at Ghent early on the morning of Waterloo. The spirit of the play finds fair expression in these few verses torn from Byron’s “Waterloo” ： “Ah! then was hurrying to and fro.

And gathering tears and tremblings of distress.

And cheeks are pale, which but an hour ago loveliness; Blush’d at the praise of their And there were sudden partings.............

And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed.

And swiftly forming in the ranks of war; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar; And near the beat of the alarming drum...........

While throng’d the citizens with terror dumb.

Or whispering with white lips―“The foe!

They come! they come!”

The cast consisted of Miss M. Schmeling as Becky Sharp: Miss M. Hilgendorf as Mrs. G. Osborne (Amelia) : Gerhard Schae­ fer as Rawdon Crawley; Martin Dornfeld as G. Osborne, and Ru­ ben Kettenacker as Uncle Joseph Sedley. Prof. Sitz was critic.

The program of the twenty-first of February presented something new. It consisted entirely of a modern symposium, the scene of which was laid in the drawing-room of the home of a professor, who, with his wife, was entertaining a heterogeneous group of men with varied ideas on government, ranging from socialism to monarchism. The affair was something hitherto untried in literary programs, hut the choice of subject was unfortunate, for the mat­ ter under discussion, government, politics, with the long unbroken speeches and the sorry lack of good humor, indistinctness of enun­ ciation at times, all contributed to the failure of the venture as far as audience was concerned. Prof. Kiessling was critic.

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was the most exciting, and the most realistic of any thus far pre­ sented this year. But its master of ceremonies, Mr. A. Leerssen, does not deserve all the praise for its realism; that was due to chem­ ical action. The play entitled, “The Alchemist,” with Harold Schulz, as the master of the black arts, his devil, A. Gatz, and a man of scientific tricks, C. Trapp, was proceeding excellently when suddenly some phosphorous which Prof. P. Eickmann, who had kindly directed the play and was assisting on the back stage with the experiments, took fire by oxidation. The professor sustained painful burns on both hands which will hamper his lecture-experi­ ments in chemistry and college physics for some time, since phosphorus burns are difficult to heal. The extinction of the sputter­ ing and naniing1 phosphorus caused some disturbance in the wings, ami in a wink half the audience was racing toward the doors. How­ ever, order was quickly restored, and the play went on as at first except that Baumann, stage-hand, received an unpleasant surprise when a liladdcr of hydrogen, used for blowing bubbles, exploded under his arm. Costumes worn were similar to those worn by stu­ dents in the Middle Ages, flowing black gowns and scull-caps. The parts were well acted, and the correct atmosphere was not lacking: a fire place, bench, crucibles, mortars, tubes, charts, vials, retorts, still, instruments, books, all helped to make the stage look like a typical Faustian workshop. Other numbers on the program were «*i talk on clocks, especially the principles employed in some worldfamed clocks and a hit of their history, L. Vater. Poems were given by G. Rowe, R. Meyer, and E. Froelich. S. Bruns’ rendition of “Witches’ Dmice” on the piano was enjoyable. Professor Schumaim was critic.

The scenery in these plays is made possible by the untiring efforts of A. Eberhardt and an able staff of assistants.

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One day a few weeks ago when the expressman brought several great cartons, everybody knew that they were the new banduniforms which had been the dream of the organization for some years, even with the ever approaching dissolution of the military company. After two months of work the committee of five finally chose the new garb and a system for rebuying the suits from gradu­ ates, with a certain amount of yearly depreciation in their value.

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We’ve administered criticism and praise in doses as large and as frequent as necessary in our eyes and have decided that a permanent position as critic of anything at all is emphatically to be refused or cautiously side-stepped. No more criticism if it can be helped.

A few excerpts from a number of college papers may serve as examples of what any and every exchange editor can hope to find under his nose, within range of his optics with which to occupy or amuse himself.

Real romance! The thrill of passionate love, the fervor of imdying devotion! We feel the need o£ it in our daily life, and in.response to this need this selection chosen from the most clas­ sical of literature, but carefully revised, is offered to our readers: , The shades of even had fallen. A dark figure, scarcely dis­ tinguishable against the vine hidden trellis which covered the side 339

of the house, moved cautiously upward. A woman, leaning from the window above, anxiously observed his progress.

A man stepped out on the porch and looked up in surprise at the climber. Without removing his gaze from the man on the trellis, lie dropped his hand to his pocket and then slowly with­ drew it. There was a moment of tense silence. Then the shadowy figure on the trellis spoke.

“Hey, Ma!” he called, “I’ll have to nail up these vines in the morning. It’s too dark to see now.”

The man on the porch struck a match and lit his pipe.

—Student Life.

The students of Milton College may not dance. The Board of Trustees of the college denied their petition for supervised dancing on the cainpus.

—Milton College Review.

Luther College Chorus will present the cantata, “The Atone1110111," written and composed by the director of the chorus.

-—Luther College Visitor.

"I'hat teacher is ideal in whose nature are blended honesty, wis­ dom, and love.

He is not only a master of the subject he teaches but he still studies. Ilis is a large contribution to the lives of his students.

It is his best. He is honest.

He knows how to work with young lives. He deals with the finite but points to the infinite. He is wise.

■ His sternness often called for by the situation is tempered with sympathy. There is a warm bond between this one and his students. An umlerstanding heart is his. He is loving.

—Wheaton Record.

And a few jokes, humorous and otherwise: He who laughs first is a nuisance.

She (tragically) : “Stop; this can’t go on!”

He (soothingly) : “Very well, madam, we’ll try on a larger shoe.”

A deaf woman entered the church with an ear trumpet. Soon after seating herself, an usher tiptoed over, and said to her, “One toot, and out you go.”

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At no time during the game was there any doubt as to the outcome of the contest. Practically all of Northwestern^ second string men had the opportunity of Acquiring a little experience in playing against a rival college. The game was excellent from our point of view although a more evenly fought match would have added • considerable zest.

The Varsity showed great improvement in the accuracy of their shots. One out of every three attempts resulted in a field goal. As outstanding player we would cite Kettenacker, whose stellar play at guard, enhanced by his dropping in "everal baskets won him the applause of the audience. All in all the team seemed to be completely reorganized and recovered from a number of de­ moralizing setbacks suffered in the previous weeks.

F.G. F.T. P.F. Northwestern— F.G. F.T. P.F. Milton一 Krueger, r. f.----- 3 2 0 0 0 Steward, r. f.. -0 Stuhr, 1. f_______2 1 2 ...1 0 2 Stevens, 1. f.

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Blumenthal, 1. g. ..1 2 0 1 0 .0 Sayre, 1. g.......

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North Central 23; Northwestern 19 For the first time, to our knowledge, in the annals of our col­ lege athletic history has North Central College of Illinois appeared on our schedule, and they succeeded in taking the bacon with them.

With a team whose floorwork and shooting was by no means bril­ liant, they nevertheless maintained the lead to the very end after forging ahead in the middle of the second half. The score at the end of the first half was a tie, ten to ten. Coach Kleinke started the last half with his second team. North Central gradually gained a few point lead over them, and when the first squad again took to the (Igor, guarded so well that Northwestern could score only one field goal. North Central used a highly efficient man to man defense. Our players were so closely followed up that they could seldom lake anything but a forced and rapid attempt at the basket.

Northwestern— F.G. F.T. P.F. 0 2 Krueger, r. f......... 3 1 1 0 Stuhr, 1. f.

Pless, c.___ ... 2 1 1 Kettenacker, r. g\ 0 3 1 0 Blumenthal, 1. g. . 0 1 Witt _ 0 1 1 Rutz 1 0 1

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0 0 0 Miller, 1. f______ 1 0 2 .0 0 Rosenow, c. _ 0 Good, r. g___ •0 1 0 Unger, 1. g.

1 0 ■3 Doenier 4 Manning ...1 1 3 0 Williams

Referee: Holmes. Substitutions: for Northwestern, Witt for Krueger, Schwerin for Stuhr, Rutz for Pless, Raasch for Blumenthal. For North Central, Doenier for Cook, Manning for Miller, Williams for Good.

Northwestern 34; Concordia 6 Revenge is sweet. Pardon the sentiment, but in summarizing the whole affair, we were at a loss under what other category we could dispose of that feeling of exultation and triumph which all supporters and players of Northwestern experienced during and after the game. The conviction of our superiority, so violently abused and set at naught a month ago, has again come into its own.

Concordia might well have known that they were courting danger down from those ethereal in thus humiliating and dragging though somewhat giddy heights. Let none with impunity thus presume to outrage man.

Concordia after easily defeating us a month previously was confident of victory. Shortly after the opening whistle blew, the varsity scored their first field goal. A standstill or rather a tense struggle ensued in which neither found the loop. When North­ western finally broke through the ice, they could not be stopped.

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Kettenacker, Schwerin, and Witt were the stars of the game.

Concordia, as expected, brought forth numerous more or less tenable alibis to account for the defeat. But this weakness is not so very reprehensible. We all show something of this propensity to excuse our failures, and the world is to blame there. The mul­ titudes with their insistent questionings demand an explanation.

They cannot stand or rather do not desire to hear the true under­ lying causes and so various specious and plausible explanation are fabricated. The crowd swallows them and goes away content. And thus alibis, though usually eyed askance by all good sportsmen, especially when they are successful in their own particular field, and considered an unnecessary evil, also serve some good purpose, are conducive to the greater happiness of mankind in this best of possible worlds.

F.G. F.T. P.F. Northwestern— F.G. F.T. P.F. Concordia— 0 0 0 Barth, r. f....

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Stuhr, 1. f.— 0 0 2 Wenz, c.......... ..4 1 Pless, c.----1 0 Spaeth, c........

0 Kettenacker, r. g. 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 Old sen, 1. g.Blumenthal, 1. f. .2 2 0 „4 3 1 Thallacker Witt ......

3 1 0 .4 Schwerin 0 0 Wuerfel .......

Referee: Wann. Substitutions: for Northwestern, Witt for Krueger, Schwerin for Stuhr, Rutz for Pless, Mackclanz for Kettenacker, Mackdanz for Blumenthal, Raascli for Mackclanz. For Concordia, Thalacker for Barth, Wuerfel for Krause, Man for Wenz.

INTER-CLASS GAMES The Senior class basketball team, averaging more than six feet in height (Some Junior unhappily called them “the bone crush­ ing department of the Senior class”），won the championship of the and meetcollegiate department, winning seven out of nine games _ ing with stiff opposition only when matched with the Juniors. The Freshmen for a time raised pretensions to the crown but ended up weak. The squad of the class of twenty-nine played away above the heads of all their opponents and incidentally acquired a repu­ tation of introducing football tactics into this gentler sport of bas­ ketball, which is, we believe, entirely unfounded. Others can well share in these honors. The Juniors were lodged in the second berth. The Sophomores were the weak sisters, remaining at the very foot of the ladder.

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A PRES NOUS, LE DELUGE! What have we here in proud array Keeping the pace with time With nieasured stepno more to stay— The Class of Twenty Nine!

Look on the colors that we bear, The dearest emblem true!

Who would not grab a chance to wear The pearl-grey and the blue?

Mark the features of our emblem;— There’s verve in that ensign— We will always stand behind them— The Cl^iss of Twenty Nine!

“Respice finem” goes the call.

Keep your ideal in view.

Should once your spirits lowly fall, Your courage e’er renew.

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How oft we longed for that proud year, When we with joy might fit The finis to our school career And make a grand exit.

But now we near the longed-for-day, And fulfilled desires are ours, We thinky we tremble on the way, And all our relish sours.

With thoughtful look, or should I say, With mien that seems sublime, We near the long awaited day— The Class of Twenty Nine.

Before the portals of the future Cast a backward glance, How we helped posterity to nurture Gave them all a chance, And how 've’ll leave a milestone late— “Footprints in the sands of time”一 The future classes emulate The Class of Twenty Nine.

W. H. G., ’29.

The Seniors gel a write-up in this number, as it is their class number; but if said write-up amounts to anything, the readers are asked to lay the credit for the accomplishment to the midnight oil (and midnight tobacco) that was burned in the attempt.

Chief among the Seniors is Bill Sachs, who recently got a new drum from the band. Willy was so highly elated over his newest acquisition that he tried it out at twelve o’clock the first night he got it.

Second on the list is Tuffy Reich, who in a short time 'yiU probably place his order for a new band uniform. Tuffy, laboring under the delusion that clothes make the man, regrets to such an extent the disintegration of the military company that he is going to try to reorganize that body of which he was captain. With the snappy uniform of the band lie thinks he can make a success of it."

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The college pump was thawed out on March fourth, after be­ ing frozen up for about seven weeks. The severity of the winter settled in the pipes somewhere and refused to be disloged before the coming of warm weather.

On March fourth several members of the Freshman Class were seen cleaning the sidewalks in the college park. At first it was thought that they were practicing for next year, but this notion was dissipated. In view of the fact that the Powers That Be tried to put Mr. Hatzlaff, ’32，to bed at nine-thirty, it is now believed that those members of the Freshman Class who were cleaning up the walks were catching up on Strafarbeit.” Something ought to he done about this!

OIn-iEi Nntm Now and then, individual celebrates most regally in honor of her natal day. Ruth Mayer observed this important event reccntly. "I'welve members of the preparatory department were her quests. According to their statements, each one contributed most heartily to enhance the success of the party.

It is incumbent to confer laudatory commendations upon Julia Knispell, Gertrude Nauman, and Eleanor Stern. They have proved that they are very diligent and accustpmed to utilize every oppor­ tunity. They expended their efforts for the purpose of rehabili­ tating an orderly appearance of the Girls’ Rooms. However, some­ one ungratefully complained that she wasted much time in attempt­ ing to retrieve her books.

Our athletes are bestowing very much time and attention upon their field of endeavor. If they feel the need of exercise before the gymnasium classes have begun, they are resourceful enough to satisfy this desire. For example: A snowball encounter fulfilled their exigency. When this common article of this winter has dis­ appeared, how will they overcome their difficulties ?

Ruth Ibisch, who contrives novel gymnastic feats, was faithfully upholding her reputation. As many inventions meet a sad fate, so did Ruth’s newest exploit come to grief. As a result, she suffered an injury to her nose.

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Henrietta Guetzlaff spent a week-end at her home in Fort Atkinson. As the highways were in a dangerous condition, she experienced little pleasure as far as the trip itself was concerned.

Margaret Schmeling sumptuously entertained the following co-eds at a dinner party: Alice Bentzin, Alice Dierker, Jeannette Glaus, Henrietta Guetzlaff, Leona Priem, Lucille Steffen, and Marie Hilgendorf.

Lenore Gewecke renewed her acquaintanceships at Northwestern. She will resume her studies at the University of Wisconsin as soon as the summer session begins, Irmgard Dornfeld, who has been seriously ill, is improving.

We hope that she will enjoy a speedy recovery.

REALLY? “My brother’s so bowlegged his knees are not even acquainted with each other.”

“That’s nothing. My brother’s feet are so big that he has to put his pants on over his head.”

Passenger: (aboard ocean liner for the first time) : "Say, where have my clothes gone?”

Steward: uWhere did you put them?”

Passenger: “In that little cupboard there with the round glass door to it.

REAL LOVE “Lub her? Boy, I lbs de groun’ mah gal stall’s) on!”

“Lawsy, man, yo' lub sho* do cover a heap of territory.

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There was an old man, and he had a wooden leg, He hobbled all about on this artificial peg.

He hobbled to a bar—this was many moons ago一 And he stayed there longer than he’d really ought, you know.

In the wee small hours he assayed to travel home, All unsteady on his legs and bewildered in his dome.

But lie hadn’t got far when his aboraceous pin Struck a hole in the sidewalk and slipped right in.

Yes it slipped right in, and it stuck right tight, And the owner of the pin was anchored for the night.

Did he holler for help ? He assuredly did not.

For he never knew what happened, this befuddled old sot.

But he hobbled right on with his one good pop, And he never stopped to think, and he never thought to stop.

And his lignous limb still stuck right tight.

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EFFICIENCY PLUS Colored chauffeur (at station) : “Taxi, boss? Good place un’er the seat fo' yo’ grip. Neber bus’ any bottles yet.”

“Lucky I met you, old man. Can you lend me five dollars?”

"Haven't a cent with me.”

“And at home?”

“They are well, thank you.” 本 * TOO BAD Steer would like to know why vitamins were put in spinach and codliver oil instead of in cake and candy. * “Hurmh! Five dollars for my latest story.”

“Congratulations! From whom?”

“From the express company. They lost it.”

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Red: “Why?” Al: “Well, they will like you so much better. Look how I stand.”

Prof. (Speaking about the work of the Greek author) : “That is the way Thucydides * works were spread all over.”

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Pat: “It was too sentimental.”

Gerry: “Did you cry?”

Pat: “No, but I saw some other nice girls that did.

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INDEX OF VOLUME XXXII 13, 45, 82, 117, 143, 179, 218, 248, 287, 332 1-29 AthliticSsSUl-l"ll'l!l"'lT2l753792ri2^ 341

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Bluecher ein geborener Soldat—A. Dobberstein ------------------ 316 Campus and Classroom, 27, 58, 100, 128, 156, 194, 231, 261, 303, 347 Chain Stores in the United States—H. Pape---------------------- 267 Charlemagne’s Restoration of Education—H. Eckert Chinese Coolies, The—W. Wichmann -----------------…―197 Christmas Sonnet—M. Dornfeld .j-----------------------25, 57, 98, 127, 154, 193, 229, 260, 302, 346 Coed Notes 15, 48, 85, 120, 146, 182, 221, 251, 290,336 College Notes —158 Crucial Period, A—K. Kneiske --------------------------------December Issue ------- --- ----------------------------------------Dr. Marcus Whitmann—His Part in American History— 30 A. Galz --------- ----------- ------------------------------- — 10, 41, 77, 114, 139, 175, 212, 242, 283, 327 Editorials 60 English Oration—M. Franzmann 18, 51, 89, 122, 148, 185, 223, 253, 293, 339 Exchange ___ _____________________________ 264-305 Fdmiary Issue ....265 Fickle Hearts (Poem)—S. Rruns -------------------------Former Superstitions Regarding Comets and Meteors一 O. II am men ---------------- --------------------------------64 German Oration—H. Vogel -----------------；----------------Incident on the Pacific during the World War, An—L L. Schliesser • ..............................^---------------------- ___ 206 Information Please!—G. Rowe -------- -------------------- ___ 200 81 In Memoriam ............................................ .......................

In welchem Verhaeltniss steht die Idee von Hebbels “Agnes Bernauer zu den Principien fragen, die Deutschland 1848 bewegten ?—G. Martin --------ZZl3-f263 January Issue _____________________ 312 “Joseph and his Brethren”一A. Sauer — 60^101 June Issue -------------------------- ---------.106 Lady who Sings, The~~A. Kuhnke-----_ 67 Latin Oration—R. Zinimermann ..... —.

Let Him Be Accursed— —E. Knoll ...........

23, 56, 96, 125, 152, 191, 227, 258, 299, 344 ___ 168 Lorelei, The—P. Schliesser----------------Lovely Scene, A—(Poem)—A. Peters ….102 Lucian the Writer—T …

—308 MacPherson’s Ossian— —C. Lawrenz-----....308-349 March Issue ---------------•—一30-59 May Issue ------------------•一 . 234 Memories―E. Froelich 一.

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Motives of Travel—G. Albrecht------------------------------Music and Musical Instruments of the Ancient Romans— J. Meyer -------------------------------------New Ulm Massacre, The~H. Witt---------

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.一…158-196 October Issue ______________ __________ 279 Public Games in Rome—H. Fritze ----------238 Relics—J. Dahlke------------- -----------------.. 6 Richard the Lion Hearted―W. Schweppe .. ..197 Santa Claus一L. Steffen — 161 SchifFahrt—G. Struck ----145, 180, 219, 349, 288, 333 Seminary Notes—R. Bittorf ............................102-129 September Issue ------------Spas of the Rhine Valley—P. Schliesser-----___ 26S .Stolzenfels—P. Schliesser------------------------130 Thomas Paine―A. Gatz ................................... .308 To the Class of ’29 (Poem)—W. Goetz.........

To the Retired Staff (Poem)—C. Trapp-------313 Unusual, The—M. Schmeling ------------------.112 Vagaries of Advertising—M. Schmeling-----322 Value of the Classics, The—E. Kuerschner — 202 Weinachtszeit—H. Meyer ___________ ____ .324 What Price Education at Northwestern ?—P. Sauer ......

Wie Bach in seinen Choralsaetzen die Musik clem Textc anpasstJ. Meyer-------------------------------------------171 Wie ich von meinem Olieim enipfangen wurde—E. Kuehl Worin offenbart sich Luthers Innenleben in seiner Schrift an den christlichen Adel deutscher Nation?—G. Struck -------273

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WE INSTALLED THE KEWANEE SMOKELESS BOILERS IN NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE

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W. D. Sproesser Co. JEWELERS Pianos and Victor Victrolas

Kohls-Hafemeister Co. FurnitureFuneral Service Edison Phonographs and Records OUR SERVICE SATISFIES

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Phone No. 259-J

SERVICE

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W. E.Volkmann,Prop.

607 Main St.

Phone 150W

WIGGENHORN JEWELRY COMPANY Diamonds—Watches Watertown 13 Main St.

215 N. Fourth Street

Dr.T.C.H. Abelmann CARL H. OTTO Dealer in Groceries, Feed and Flour, Vegetables and Fruits in season. Telephone 597-J. Ill N. 4th St. Watertown, Wis.

United Cigar Store

FACTORY PAINT STORE

ED. WARNER

w \ Wholesale and Retail \ • (EVERYTHING IN PA/ffT5 6 WALLPAPEpj

For Cigars, Cigarettes and Tobaccos Also Magazines and Daily Papers 9 MAIN STREET

EAST END BARBER SHOP

Painting Contractors PICTURE FRAMING

602 Main St.

Watertown, Wis.

Young Men's Suits and Top Coats For Early Spring and Summer.

售 Buehler Bros.，Inc. THE UP-TO-DATE MEAT MARKET Quality, Service, and Lowest Price 108 Main St.

Phone 126

Watertown

Purity Bread There is no substitute for Quality STUPKA，S BAKE SHOP 618 Main Street

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THE FOUNDATION OF GOOD EASTER APPEARANCE Your oxfords arc the foundation of your good appearance. It’s important that they be exactly right. When you start your caster wardrobe start at the bottom with a pair of these smart Spring oxfords.

A, KALIEBE 616 Main St. STOP AND EAT AT THE

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A. POLZIN Ice Cream, Candies Cigarettes, Groceries 1207 Western Ave.

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107 W. Main St.

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THE OLYMPIA M. SALLAS, Prop.

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Salick’s Jeweler

601 Main St

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Let our cleaning and pressing process re­ new your spring wardrobe NOW! Be pre­ pared for Easter and don’t wait till that last minute.

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Tietz Cleaners & Dyers Phone 620-J

110 Second St.

YOUNG，S THE HOME OF GOOD SAUSAGE

Phone 197

Marble Barber Shop

Watertown, Wis.

FRANK BRAMER Teacher Violin and Cello Piano Tuner Above Farmers & Citzens Bank 3rd Floor

101 First Street

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Watertown, Wis.

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$22.50

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Office Phone 156-W

Watertown, Wis.

215 Main St.

SUITS and OVERCOATS

$22

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Hoffmann-Kelly Co0 Bring Easter into your Home with one of choice Easter Lilie

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Stuebe Floral Co. Phone 464

406 Main St.

W. A. NACK MEATS Quality First .

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AT THE SHARP CORNER WM. GEHRKE DRUGGIST

315 Main St.

Watertown. Wis.

Shoes Repaired while you wait A. SOHRWEIDE

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210 So. Third Street

400 Main Street

Watertown's Exclusive

AUG. GAMM CROCKERY CO.

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JULIUS BAYER Wholesale and Retail Dealer in

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MEATS AND SAUSAGES OF ALL KINDS Watertown

Wisconsin

Phone 25

Phone 431-J

105 Main Street

The Princess Confectionery

Phone 680-J

Next to Theatre

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WHITMANS CHOCOLATES Ice Cream

Watertown, Wis.

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313 Main Street

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200 First Street

Phone 264-W

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Corner First and Main Streets

FIRST CLASS WORK

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SIM BLOCK

Office & Plant, 412 Main Street

“THE

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PHONE 263-J Watertown

205 Third St.

Headquarters for

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Grube - Greinert Company 302 Main Street

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